Counsel, Boyden Gray PLLC
Austin Lipari is counsel at Boyden Gray PLLC. Before joining the firm, he served as an adviser to Chairman and Commissioner James P. Danly at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, assisting on critical infrastructure issues under both the Federal Power Act and the Natural Gas Act.
Mr. Lipari also served in the Attorney General’s Office of Legal Policy within the Department of Justice as senior counsel and on policy coordinating committees in the Trump Administration to advance the implementation of regulatory reforms and protections for religious liberty and free speech. He also participated in the vetting and selection of judicial nominees, serving on the team that shepherded Justice Amy Coney Barrett through the confirmation process.
Mr. Lipari also held several roles in the Office of Personnel Management’s Office of General Counsel, including deputy general counsel. He coordinated the review and development of numerous executive orders, regulations, and other significant policy vehicles.
Additionally, he worked on the 2016 transition of President Donald Trump, during which he served on the landing team at the Environmental Protection Agency, gathering information on the state of the agency and developing plans for the new administration.
Before joining the Trump Administration, Mr. Lipari served as deputy director of Federalist Society’s Student Division. In this role, he managed the activities of the Society’s two hundred student chapters, serving as a mentor and adviser for the student chapter leaders.
Mr. Lipari received a J.D. from the Catholic University of America Columbus School of law and a A.B. magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the Catholic University of America School of Philosophy.
Senior Fellow for Law, Economics, and Technology, The Heritage Foundation; Professor, Florida International University
Mario Loyola is a Senior Fellow for Law, Economics, and Technology at The Heritage Foundation.
Loyola served in the Trump Administration as Associate Director for Regulatory Reform at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. In that role, he was one of the principal drafters of the One Federal Decision policy, which helped to streamline the permitting and environmental review of large infrastructure projects. While at CEQ, he was a member of the U.S. delegation to the USMCA free trade negotiations with Mexico and Canada, as well as the United Nations conference on biodiversity on the high seas. Loyola initially joined the White House in February 2017 as a Presidential Speechwriter, employing his expertise in many areas of foreign and domestic policy.
After beginning his career in M&A and corporate finance law, Loyola served in the Bush 43 Administration as a special assistant to the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. He left that position to start writing on national defense issues in magazines such as National Review and The Weekly Standard, reporting from the front lines of the war on terrorism in Lebanon, Israel, and Iraq. He finished the Bush Administration as Foreign and Defense Counsel to the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee, then under the chairmanship of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas. He subsequently moved to Texas and joined the Texas Public Policy Foundation, where he specialized in energy, environment, and federalism.
Loyola is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, National Review, and The Atlantic, among others. He teaches environmental and administrative law at Florida International University, where he is Founding Director of the Environmental Finance and Risk Management program in FIU’s prestigious Institute of Environment. He received a bachelor’s degree in European history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a J.D. from Washington University School of Law.
Counsel, Boyden Gray PLLC
Austin Lipari is counsel at Boyden Gray PLLC. Before joining the firm, he served as an adviser to Chairman and Commissioner James P. Danly at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, assisting on critical infrastructure issues under both the Federal Power Act and the Natural Gas Act.
Mr. Lipari also served in the Attorney General’s Office of Legal Policy within the Department of Justice as senior counsel and on policy coordinating committees in the Trump Administration to advance the implementation of regulatory reforms and protections for religious liberty and free speech. He also participated in the vetting and selection of judicial nominees, serving on the team that shepherded Justice Amy Coney Barrett through the confirmation process.
Mr. Lipari also held several roles in the Office of Personnel Management’s Office of General Counsel, including deputy general counsel. He coordinated the review and development of numerous executive orders, regulations, and other significant policy vehicles.
Additionally, he worked on the 2016 transition of President Donald Trump, during which he served on the landing team at the Environmental Protection Agency, gathering information on the state of the agency and developing plans for the new administration.
Before joining the Trump Administration, Mr. Lipari served as deputy director of Federalist Society’s Student Division. In this role, he managed the activities of the Society’s two hundred student chapters, serving as a mentor and adviser for the student chapter leaders.
Mr. Lipari received a J.D. from the Catholic University of America Columbus School of law and a A.B. magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the Catholic University of America School of Philosophy.
Senior Fellow for Law, Economics, and Technology, The Heritage Foundation; Professor, Florida International University
Mario Loyola is a Senior Fellow for Law, Economics, and Technology at The Heritage Foundation.
Loyola served in the Trump Administration as Associate Director for Regulatory Reform at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. In that role, he was one of the principal drafters of the One Federal Decision policy, which helped to streamline the permitting and environmental review of large infrastructure projects. While at CEQ, he was a member of the U.S. delegation to the USMCA free trade negotiations with Mexico and Canada, as well as the United Nations conference on biodiversity on the high seas. Loyola initially joined the White House in February 2017 as a Presidential Speechwriter, employing his expertise in many areas of foreign and domestic policy.
After beginning his career in M&A and corporate finance law, Loyola served in the Bush 43 Administration as a special assistant to the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. He left that position to start writing on national defense issues in magazines such as National Review and The Weekly Standard, reporting from the front lines of the war on terrorism in Lebanon, Israel, and Iraq. He finished the Bush Administration as Foreign and Defense Counsel to the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee, then under the chairmanship of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas. He subsequently moved to Texas and joined the Texas Public Policy Foundation, where he specialized in energy, environment, and federalism.
Loyola is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, National Review, and The Atlantic, among others. He teaches environmental and administrative law at Florida International University, where he is Founding Director of the Environmental Finance and Risk Management program in FIU’s prestigious Institute of Environment. He received a bachelor’s degree in European history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a J.D. from Washington University School of Law.
Courthouse Steps Decision: Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado
Austin M. Lipari, Mario Loyola
This case concerned the question of whether the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires an...
Courthouse Steps Decision: Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado
Austin M. Lipari, Mario Loyola
This case concerned the question of whether the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires an...
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