In her role at Eversource Energy as Assistant General Counsel, Sustainability, Environmental & Real Estate, Nancy leads a team of lawyers focusing on a wide variety of environmental, real estate and sustainability issues. Primary focuses include environmental stewardship, environmental compliance, equitable and sustainable real estate management, equitable and sustainable clean energy transformation, halting climate change, and Environmental Justice, all while supporting Eversource Energy’s industry goal of becoming Carbon Neutral by 2030. She is a member of the Eversource Pro-Equity Advisory Team and the Eversource Equity Governance Committee.
From 2011-2015 Nancy served as General Counsel of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP). As Chief Legal Officer of MassDEP, she was responsible for advising MassDEP’s Commissioner and staff on environmental and energy related legal and policy issues, ethics, personnel matters, and compliance with internal agency policies; supervising and managing a staff of approximately 45 attorneys and the Director of the Environmental Strike Force; and reviewing MassDEP actions for legal sufficiency. She represented MassDEP in administrative law matters; acted as a liaison between MassDEP and the Office of the Attorney General in investigations and litigation; communicated with stakeholders and the public regarding legal matters and regulatory reform; and served as lead attorney for MassDEP’s Fraud, Waste & Abuse investigations. In addition, she sat on the Energy Facilities Siting Board as the Commissioner’s designee.
Ms. Kaplan spent 24 years in private practice in the Boston area during which time she represented energy, commercial, industrial, municipal and citizen group clients on regulatory environmental compliance counseling, strategic analysis, solid waste site assignment and management, Brownfields Redevelopment, wetlands, waterways and land use permitting, assessment and remediation of and contribution for complex contaminated sites, environmental litigation, the Water Management Act and Clean Water Act compliance. Nancy is a Certified Environmental Education Facilitator, published author on the topic of protecting public lands, and holds a Certificate from the Commonwealth Management Program. She has held Adjunct Professor positions at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, Suffolk University, and Boston University, teaching courses in environmental law and litigation.
Nancy is a graduate of The Pennsylvania State University and Suffolk University Law School and is a past member of The Parent Advisory for the Boston Children’s Hospital Comfort Ability Program; past Co-Chair of the Boston Bar Association’s Energy Law Committee; and past member of the Board of Directors for the Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation.