JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 1984
BA, magna cum laude, Georgetown University, 1981

• District of Columbia Bar

• Management and identification of environmental regulatory and permitting issues in more than 100 project finance transactions involving power plants, pipelines and numerous other forms of infrastructure. 
• Environmental due diligence for numerous corporate acquisitions and divestitures, including negotiation of environmental terms and obligations in primary and ancillary agreements. 
• Litigation and arbitration of environmental indemnification disputes arising out of mergers and acquisitions. 
• Defense of governmental enforcement actions asserting violations of environmental law at both the federal and state level. 
• Litigation of Superfund and other types of environmental remediation claims. 
• Counseling manufacturing companies and other commercial entities on compliance with and developments in environmental laws. 
• Negotiating transactions involving the sale or transfer of emissions credits, including greenhouse gas credits and counseling clients with respect to greenhouse gas issues.

• Lawdragon 500 Leading Environmental & Energy Lawyers, Lawdragon, Inc., 2021 

• "Environmental Update; federal "tailoring rule" takes effect; PSD Program; BACT emissions limits," Project Finance Newswire, January 2011
• "'Climate Change' Litigation Update -- U.S. Supreme Court Grants Certiorari in Climate Change Lawsuit -- Will Decide Whether Companies May Be Sued for Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions And Resultant Contribution to Global Warming," Client Alert, December 17, 2010
• "Environmental Update; federal government moved closer in August to regulating carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions by regulation," Project Finance Newswire, September 2010
• "Fourth Circuit Declines To Permit State Suit Alleging TVA’s Power Plants’ Interstate Air Emissions Constitute A Public Nuisance," Client Alert, August 16, 2010
• "Environmental Update; thresholds announced for "prevention of significant deterioration" or PSD program," Project Finance Newswire, July 2010
• "'Climate Change' Litigation Update -- Fifth Circuit Dismisses En Banc Appeal On Procedural Grounds, So District Court Decision Dismissing Claims Related To Climate Change Stands As Good Law," Client Alert, June 11, 2010
• "'Climate Change': Litigation- and Regulatory Update," Client Alert, March 31, 2010
• "Environmental Update; Animal Welfare Institute v. Beech Ridge Energy LLC," Project Finance Newswire, February 2010
• Project Finance NewsWire, February 2010
• "Companies in Hot Seat as Courts Advance Climate Change Claims," Law.com, January 4, 2010
• "Climate Change Lawsuits Advance (Special Update)," Client Alert, December 14, 2009
• "Recent Decisions Permit Claims That Private Companies are Contributing to 'Climate Change'," Client Alert, November 5, 2009
• "Environmental Update; US government has legal authority to regulate greenhouse emissions from new motor vehicles," Project Finance NewsWire, April 2007
• Contributor, "Environmental Update," Project Finance NewsWire, January & April 2007
• "Environmental Update; California Greenhouse Gas Measures," Project Finance NewsWire, November 2006
• "Environmental Update; International Finance Corporation proposes revisions to environmental guidelines," Project Finance NewsWire, September 2006
• Contributor, "Environmental Update," Project Finance NewsWire, September 2006
• "Environmental Update: Fuel Additives; Ethanol Air Permits; Greenhouse Gas; Plant Modifications; Mercury Emissions," Project Finance NewsWire, June 2006
• "Environmental Update," Project Finance NewsWire, March & June 2006
• "Environmental Update; Greenhouse Gases; Power Plant Emissions; Mercury; IFC Guidelines; Mohave Shutdown; Renewables in Gasoline; New Source Review Case," Project Finance NewsWire, March 2006
• "Environmental Enforcement Against Telecom Companies," Client Alert, December 1, 2003
• Co-author, "Projects Lose Acid Rain Protection," Project Finance NewsWire, December 2001
• "Growing Market Expected In Carbon Trades," Project Finance NewsWire, August 2001
• Co-author, "Environmental Update," Project Finance NewsWire, February 2001
• "Promises and Pitfalls of Voluntary Cleanups in New York State," The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, April 2000
• "Greenhouse Gas Credits to Provide New Source of Financing," Natural Gas, March 2000
• "Cross-Border Transactions and Environmental Law (chapter detailing U.S. environmental laws)," Butterworths, 1999

• Mr. Giaccia has lectured extensively on environmental subjects, including the subject of environmental risk management and emissions credit trading.

• Mr. Giaccia has been a member of the District of Columbia Bar (Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Section) and the American Bar Association (Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law Section