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.
More Legal and Business Bylines From Danelle Gagliardi
- From Farm to Table: How the Supreme Court’s Pork Ruling Impacts States’ Rights and Doing Business in California - (Posted On Wednesday, June 07, 2023)
- China Publishes Draft List of Key New Pollutants under Pollutant Control Action Plan - (Posted On Friday, October 21, 2022)
- Prop 65 Regulatory Update for the Cannabis Industry: Tailored Warnings Become Effective October 1, 2022 with a 1-Year Grace Period for Compliance - (Posted On Thursday, September 22, 2022)
- China’s New Pollutant Control Action Plan: A Focused Plan that Could Impact the Chemical Industry Outside of China - (Posted On Thursday, June 23, 2022)
- Prop 65 Regulatory Update for the Food & Cannabis Industry: OEHHA Proposes Specialized Warnings for Exposures to Acrylamide from Food & Exposures to Smoke from Cannabis/THC Products - (Posted On Monday, October 18, 2021)
- WARNING: California Prop 65 Enforcement of THC Listing from CBD Products Became Effective January 3, 2021 - (Posted On Tuesday, January 12, 2021)
- Prop 65 Victory For Chemical Industry In Monsanto Case Has Been Appealed - (Posted On Friday, September 25, 2020)
- US EPA Issues Best Practices for Cleaning and Disinfecting Public Spaces, Workplaces, Businesses, Schools and Homes - (Posted On Friday, May 08, 2020)
- California Prop 65 Amendments on Responsibility to Warn Are Effective On April 1, 2020 - (Posted On Wednesday, April 01, 2020)
- How Companies Have Been Responding to Increasing Pressure to Take Action on Climate Change - (Posted On Thursday, December 19, 2019)