Instructor

James T. Dufour

James T. Dufour is an environmental and OSHA attorney, and Certified Industrial Hygienist with over three decades of experience in environmental and OSHA regulatory compliance and defense. His experience includes 20 years of private practice, and 12 years in private corporation and government service. He has been a consultant to the U.S. EPA, Fed/OSHA, trade associations, and businesses.

His defense practice includes representation of businesses and other organizations before administrative agencies involving U.S. EPA, OSHA, Air District, and Unified Program Hazardous Materials and Waste enforcement, as well as civil enforcement in the areas of Proposition 65, hazardous waste, federal Clean Air Act, EPCRA and CERCLA, and water (storm water).

He has written numerous OSHA and environmental compliance manuals—many of which were published by the California Chamber of Commerce—used by thousands of employers; and he has conducted hundreds of seminars for business representatives. He holds a law degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a B.S. and M.S. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Dufour was admitted to practice in California in 1983.