Jon Devine is a senior attorney with the Water Program. His work focuses on water quality and nutrient pollution in the Mississippi River Basin, the legal scope of the Clean Water Act and mountaintop removal coal mining and its impacts on bodies of water in Appalachia. Jon worked with NRDC's health and environment program for four years. Before joining NRDC in 2001, Jon was an attorney-advisor in the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of General Counsel. Jon was a law clerk for Judge Phyllis Kravitch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He received his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1996 and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1991. Before attending law school, he was an environmental specialist in the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.