Manko Gold’s Natalia Teekah advises clients on regulatory compliance, transactional due diligence, contaminated site redevelopment, land use, and solid and hazardous waste matters. She has experience with issues involving the Spill Compensation and Control Act, Solid Waste Management Act, Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act, ISRA, Blue Acres, municipal stormwater regulation, CERCLA, RCRA, and environmental cleanup cost recovery. She is also a member of the Environment Committee for the New Jersey Builders Association.

Prior to her law firm work, Natalia was an Advanced Student Clinician at Vermont Law School’s Environment and Natural Resources Legal Clinic and served on the Executive Board of the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Natalia earned her J.D. with a certificate in Climate Law from Vermont Law School and a B.S. in Biology from Emory University.

In her free time, she enjoys making wheel thrown pottery and taking road trips to Vermont.

Representative examples of Natalia’s work includes:

• Advising on ISRA compliance in multimillion dollar asset sale, including working with NJDEP on obtaining approvals within short deal timeframes.
• Spearheading appeals and settlement negotiations in various matters before NJ OAL and Appellate Division, including Spill Act, solid waste, CAFRA, and waterfront development matters.
• Conducting environmental due diligence and drafting environmental provisions of PSAs for environmentally complex properties.
• Negotiating and drafting sewer service agreements between developers, municipalities, and utilities.
• Preparing resource recovery license renewal applications involving both state and local compliance issues.
• Resolving notices of violation before PA and NJDEP.
• Preparing deed notices, conservation restrictions, LOI applications, and Spill Act lien contest letters.
• Finalizing and implementing Consent Decree with a Supplemental Environmental Project resolving Clean Air Act violations.
• Spearheading successful cost recovery negotiations under NJ Spill Compensation and Control Act.
• Contributing to negotiations leading to a multi-million-dollar settlement in client’s favor on pipeline construction matter.

"Natural Resource Damage Claims: The Current State of Play in New Jersey", presented at the New Jersey Environmental Law Forum, Wildwood Crest, NJ, June 20, 2025

"New Jersey Update on Groundwater Standards", a webinar presented for the Society of Women Environmental Professionals (SWEP), March 19, 2025