Evan Feinauer

Staff Attorney for Clean Wisconsin
Mr. Feinauer is Staff Attorney for Clean Wisconsin, an environmental advocacy nonprofit located in Madison, Wisconsin. His work focuses on water issues across Wisconsin. Working with Clean Wisconsin’s partners, Mr. Feinauer litigated a pair of cases that were recently argued before the Wisconsin Supreme Court concerning groundwater quantity issues caused by the proliferation of high-capacity wells in the Central Sands and polluted farm runoff from a large dairy farm in Kewaunee County. Mr. Feinauer also successfully challenged a wetland fill permit the Department of Natural Resources issued for the construction of a frac sand facility, protecting over 16 acres of rare, pristine wetlands in Monroe County. He also supports Clean Wisconsin’s lobbyists and policy experts in their work advocating for strong legislation, administrative rules, and agency decision-making to protect Wisconsin’s waters. Before joining Clean Wisconsin, Mr. Feinauer worked as a Litigation Fellow with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). At NRDC, he helped litigate a Safe Drinking Water Act citizen suit responding to the Flint water crisis in federal district court in Detroit, MI. Mr. Feinauer holds a B.A. degree in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.S. degree in Ethics and Public Policy from Suffolk University, and a J.D. degree from the University of Chicago Law School.