John Milner joined the Brunini Firm in 1978. John concentrates his practice primarily in environmental law. He represents business and industrial clients in environmental litigation in state and federal courts in the Southeastern region. He has also had significant experience in environmental permitting and enforcement actions, natural resource damage assessments, and regulation promulgation proceedings before the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, as well as the Alabama Department of Environmental Management and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. His environmental practice also concerns real estate due diligence and contractual matters in the southeastern region states. John represents clients in lobbying and monitoring activities concerning environmental and other business and industry issues before the Mississippi Legislature.

John is a member of the Section Council of the American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources.  He is a member of the American College of Environmental Lawyers.  He has also been recognized by Woodward/White as one of the Best Lawyers in America® in the fields of Environmental Law and Litigation-Environmental in Mississippi and is ranked by Chambers USA:  America's Leading Lawyers as a Band 1 practitioner of environmental law in Mississippi.

John currently serves as Environmental Counsel for the Mississippi Manufacturers Association, the primary trade association representing the interests of Mississippi industry and he is counsel for the Mississippi Poultry Association and the Mississippi Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Stores Association. He also serves as State Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. 

Speeches & Publications

• Overview of Major Federal Environmental Acts and Regulations for the General Practitioner, 60 Miss. L.J. 1-145 (1990)
• Overview of Federal and Mississippi Environmental Laws, 50 Miss. L.J. 1-144 (1990)
• Environmental Justice, 13 Natural Resources & Environment 428-482 (Winter 1999) (published by ABA Section of National Resources, Energy & Environmental Law)
• Brownfields Law and Practice, Mississippi consultant (Matthew Bender, 1998 to date, Vol. 2, pp. MS-1 to MS-30.)
• Brownfields, Hazardous Materials Management Desk Reference, published by the Academy of Certified Hazardous Materials Managers (McGraw Hill, 2000, pp. 247-268).
• John E. Milner and Susan Floyd King, "The Fifth Circuit Curtails EPA's Authority to Require Permits under the Clean Water Act", Emerging Trends, Mississippi Poultry Association Newsletter (June 2011)
• John E. Milner and Susan Floyd King, "Mississippi's Effect on EPA's Estimating Methodologies for AFO Emissions", Emerging Trends, Mississippi Poultry Association Newsletter (March 2011)
• John E. Milner and Susan Floyd King, "The Contiguous Landowner and the Permitting Process", Emerging Trends, Mississippi Poultry Association Newsletter (November 2010)
• John E. Milner and Susan Floyd King, "New Federal Court Decision Supports EPA Policy to Allow Suit Against Poultry Companies for Grower Farm Wastewater Violations", Emerging Trends, Mississippi Poultry Association Newsletter (September 2010)
• John E. Milner and Susan Floyd King, “The Supreme Court Interprets the Meaning of ‘Waters of the U.S.’”, Mississippi Manufacturers Association Newsletter (May 2011)
• John E. Milner and Susan Floyd King, “D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Denied Stay Motions Challenging EPA’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Regulations – What Now?”, Mississippi Manufacturers Association Newsletter (December 2010)
• John E. Milner and Susan Floyd King, “EPA’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Regulations:  The Effect on Mississippi’s State Implementation Plan (SIP)”, Mississippi Manufacturers Association Newsletter (October 2010)
• John E. Milner and Susan Floyd King, “Manufacturers’ Challenge to Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Initiatives”, Mississippi Manufacturers Association Fall Conference (October 2010)
• ABA SEER Region IV Conferences in Atlanta (Speaking Engagement)
• ABA SEER Fall Conference - New Orleans (Speaking Engagement)
• MBS SEER Annual Meeting (Speaking Engagement)
• Alabama SEER Annual Meeting (Speaking Engagement)

Community & Professional Activities

• American College of Environmental Lawyers
• The American Bar Association (Member, Litigation Section and Administrative Law Section; Section Council Member for Section of Environment, Energy and Resources (SEER))
• Mississippi Bar Association (Member, Litigation Section, Administrative Law Section and past Chair of SEER)
• The Nature Conservancy in Mississippi, Board Chair
• Mississippi Biomass Council, Board Member
• Mississippi Energy Policy Institute, Board Member
• Mississippi "Magnolia" Chapter of the Solid Waste Association of North America, Board Member