Melanie J. Granberg

Melanie Granberg is a partner in the Environmental & Public Lands Group at Davis Graham. Her practice spans a broad range of technical areas, including regulatory compliance, permitting, enforcement, property transactions, and litigation under federal and state environmental programs such as RCRA, CERCLA, the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act, and OSHA. She regularly advises clients on spill response and crisis management, environmental self-audits and voluntary disclosures, site remediation and Brownfields redevelopment, air and hazardous waste permitting and compliance, defense of regulatory enforcement actions, and contaminated property issues involving asbestos, lead, and methamphetamine.

Melanie received her J.D. from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Colorado. She served in the past as a multi-term member of the Colorado Solid and Hazardous Waste Commission, and is the environmental law coordinating editor for The Colorado Lawyer, the Colorado Bar Association’s flagship publication. Melanie is also a member of the Susan G. Komen Colorado Community Board and volunteers regularly at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

She’s admitted to practice in Colorado, the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Memberships & Affiliations

• American Bar Association
• Colorado Bar Association
• Denver Bar Association
• Colorado Environmental Management Society, current member, and past president
• Past Co-Chair, Colorado Environmental Professionals Association Regulatory Affairs Committee

Publication

• “Environmental Self-Audits: Legal Tools to Improve Environmental Compliance & Mitigate Regulatory Risks,” Davis Graham Legal Alert with Griffin Mansi and Cole Killion, (March 2026)
• ”EPA Proposes to Rescind the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding,” Davis Graham Legal Alert with John Jacus, Cole Killion, and Natalie Boldt, (August 2025).
• “CW-14 Revised Policy Summary,” Davis Graham Legal Alert with Ixchel Parr-Culver, (April 2025).