Rochester, New York, December 19, 2025 – Harter Secrest & Emery LLP, a full-service business law firm with offices throughout New York, is proud to announce that Melissa M. Valle, partner in the firm’s Environmental practice, is recognized in the 2025 Rochester Business Journal 2025 Power List for Environmental Leaders.
Valle counsels and represents clients with respect to all manner of environmental, land use, and zoning issues, including regulatory compliance; environmental permitting and enforcement; environmental and land use litigation, including complex cases involving hazardous substance and petroleum liability; New York State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA); due diligence; cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated properties; and Brownfield redevelopment.
She is chair of the Air & Waste Management Association, Genesee Finger Lakes Chapter. Valle earned a J.D., cum laude, from Roger Williams University School of Law, and a B.S. in environmental studies, summa cum laude, from State University of New York at Buffalo.