Bernice I. Corman (Bicky)

Bicky Corman

  • Lecturer in Law

Bicky Corman is a DC-based clean energy and environmental lawyer, with extensive experience representing private and public sector clients, non-profits and individuals before agencies, before courts, and in interactions with legislative and executive branch officials.   Prior to joining the private sector, Ms. Corman served as a presidentially-appointed Deputy General Counsel with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and as the Senior Sustainability Advisor to the EPA Administrator; as the General Counsel for DC’s Department of Energy and Environment; as a Trial Lawyer in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environmental Enforcement Section; as staffer on the U.S. Senate’s Environment & Public Works Committee; and as a staff attorney in EPA’s New York office. 

Ms. Corman’s clean energy clients include distributed energy resources (DER) and electric vehicle (EV) equipment manufacturers, solar and battery storage installers, charging service equipment providers and solar energy and EV supply chain associations. On their behalf, she has obtained rulings in roughly ten proceedings that involved establishing electricity rates and/or utility incentive programs in ways intended to increase DER and EV adoption. Ms. Corman served as a consultant to the Justice Climate Fund, a non-profit network of community lenders, that sought and was awarded $974 million under EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund framework.

Ms. Corman’s environmental client matters include serving as co-counsel in two lawsuits pertaining to PCBs, one on behalf of DC, which settled for $52 million, and the other on behalf of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe and seven Tribal members that also resulted in settlement, the terms of which are confidential.  Ms. Corman currently represents the Tribe, and a small town in Massachusetts, pursuing claims against PFAS manufacturers.  Ms. Corman advised an outside counsel team representing the Virgin Islands Attorney General’s Office in an oil refinery’s bankruptcy proceeding, which resulted in a $75 million environmental remediation trust;  and obtained DC’s first seven and eight figure penalties in environmental enforcement cases.