Max Greene

Business Phone: 401.339.2990

Business Fax: 503.334.2235

max@sanger-law.com

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Practice Areas

Public Utility and Energy Law

Administrative and Regulatory Law

Transactions and Resource Development

Water Utility Law

Education

Roger Williams University, J.D. 2008

Carleton College, B.A. 2005

Professional Experience

Mr. Greene represents clients on matters related to the clean energy transition in the Northwest, providing advice to nonprofits, trade associations, and electricity generators, among others. 

Prior to joining Sanger Law, Mr. Greene spent several years at Renewable Northwest, finishing as the organization’s Deputy Director. In that role he supervised work on regulatory matters such as utility resource planning and procurement, and on policy matters including clean energy legislation and renewable energy siting. He has engaged with all Northwest investor-owned utilities’ recent integrated resource plans, worked on the development of Oregon’s and Washington’s competitive procurement rules, helped to negotiate utility voluntary renewable energy programs, participated in writing and passing Oregon’s 100% clean electricity law (HB 2021), engaged deeply with the implementation of Washington’s Clean Energy Transformation Act, and advocated before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on matters related to Open Access Transmission Tariffs, particularly with regard to interconnection processes. He also helped to write and pass a suite of clean energy siting laws in Oregon and Washington, has served on several Oregon and Washington agency advisory committees relating to energy siting, and has authored amicus briefs on siting and permitting law before the Oregon Court of Appeals and Oregon Supreme Court.

Before working at Renewable Northwest, Mr. Greene served as a staff attorney in the Providence, Rhode Island office of the Conservation Law Foundation, where he appeared before the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission and Energy Facility Siting Board, as well as various state and federal courts; earlier in his career, he worked in the Law Department for the City of Providence, Rhode Island and represented indigent clients at Rhode Island Legal Services. 

Mr. Greene earned a B.A. in Latin from Carleton College and a J.D. from Roger Williams University, graduating cum laude from both institutions and finishing law school with an award for Natural Resources Law. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable O. Rogeriee Thompson on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. 

More recently, Mr. Greene has completed significant coursework in Electrical Engineering at Portland State University. 

Mr. Greene is a member of various boards and committees including Co-Chairing the Program Review Committee for the Western Resource Adequacy Program and serving on the Executive Committee of the Oregon State Bar’s Energy, Telecom & Utility Law Section.

Professional Activities

Oregon State Bar

Oregon State Bar Energy, Telecom and Utility Section

Rhode Island State Bar (Inactive)