Danelle Gagliardi represents a wide variety of clients in complex environmental transactions, litigation and regulatory compliance, including those in the metals, mining, iron and steel, oil and chemical industries, as well as real estate developers and shipping and logistics companies. She has a strong background in the Clean Air Act (CAA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Toxics Substances Control Act (TSCA), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) and California’s Proposition 65 (Prop 65).
Danelle has a multistate, global practice involving all aspects of environmental law. She has represented clients in challenges related to state and federal enforcement actions and rulemakings, negotiated consent decrees and defended clients in cost recovery or contribution claims under CERCLA in multiple jurisdictions. She has also advised both US and international clients on diligence aspects of complex transactions in the areas of environmental engineering/infrastructure, chemicals, nuclear power and renewable energy.
Danelle regularly counsels both US and international clients in a variety of industries on compliance and enforcement matters related to Proposition 65, California’s clear and reasonable warning regulations, and she has experience guiding clients in multiple states through the process of obtaining environmental covenants under state voluntary action programs for brownfield redevelopment.
Prior to joining the firm, Danelle interned for Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton on the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She is heavily involved in pro bono efforts through Columbus Legal Aid’s Wills Clinic and Operation Legal Help Ohio, which assists low-income veterans for their legal needs. She serves on the Board of the Association of Women in the Metal Industries – Columbus Chapter as the Finance/Marketing Director and has a Master of Laws from the University of Queensland, T.C. Bierne School of Law in Australia.
