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Danelle Gagliardi
Senior Associate
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, waste management and chemical industries, as well as the renewable energy industry. 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 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 in assisting low-income veterans for their legal needs. She serves on the Board of the Association of Women in the Metal Industries – Columbus Chapter and has a Master of Laws from the University of Queensland, T.C. Bierne School of Law in Australia.
Education
- The University of Queensland, LL.M., 2015
- Washington University, J.D., Executive Articles Editor, Washington University Global Studies Law Review, 2015
- The Ohio State University, B.A., magna cum laude, 2012
Admissions
- Ohio, 2015
Courts
- U.S. Ct. of App., Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Dist. Ct., S. Dist. of Ohio
Memberships and Affiliations
- Scholarship Chair, Association of Women in the Metal Industries – Columbus Chapter (AWMI)
- Member, Ohio Women’s Bar Association, Energy & Environment Subcommittee and Mentoring Program
- Member, Ohio Chamber of Commerce Energy & Environment Committee
- Member, Ohio State Bar Association
- Volunteer Attorney, Columbus Legal Aid Society
- Ohio Rising Stars 2021-2023: Environmental
- Environmental Moot Court Champion, Washington University, 2015
- Excellence in Oral Advocacy Award, Washington University, 2013
Publications
- Co-author, “A Big Prop 65 Victory for Chemical Industry in Monsanto Case,” Law360 Expert Analysis, July 17, 2020.
- Co-author, “China’s Pollution War,” China Business Law Journal, June 10, 2018.
- Author, “Mediation in the Coal-Seam Gas Industry: Improvements Made for Local Stakeholders to Grant a Social Licence,” Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal, Vol. 27:2 (2016).
- Author, “Made in America: Why the Shale Revolution in America is Not Replicable in China,” Washington University Global Studies Law Review, Vol. 14:1 (2015).
Blogs
- Co-author, “Prop 65 Victory for Chemical Industry in Monsanto Case Has Been Appealed,” frESH Law Blog, September 25, 2020.
- Author, “US EPA Issues Best Practices for Cleaning and Disinfecting Public Spaces, Workplaces, Businesses, Schools and Homes,” frESH Law Blog, May 8, 2020.
- Co-author, “California Prop 65 Amendments on Responsibility to Warn Are Effective on April 1, 2020,” frESH Law Blog, March 31, 2020.
- Author, “Why Are We Still Talking About California Prop 65,” frESH Law Blog, August 16, 2019.
- Author, “Springtime Showers Brings State Legislation in the US Friendly to Solar and Wind Energy,” frESH Law Blog, May 14, 2019.
- Co-author, “Latest News and Perspectives on California Prop 65,” frESH Law Blog, January 10, 2019.
- Co-author, “Warning: One Month Left Before New Prop 65 Regulations Become Operative on August 30, 2018,” frESH Law Blog, August 3, 2018.
- Co-author, “Warning: Only 6 Months Left Before New Prop 65 Regulations Become Operative on August 30, 2018,” frESH Law Blog, March 2, 2018.
- Author, “US EPA’s Superfund Task Force Recommendations May Expedite Cleanup and Reuse Process for Contaminated Sites,” frESH Law Blog, October 17, 2017.
- Co-author, “Warning: Only One Year Left Before New Prop 65 Regulations Become Operative On August 30, 2018,” frESH Law Blog, August 30, 2017.
- Author, “D.C. Court Gives US EPA 3 Years to Update National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants,” frESH Law Blog, April 14, 2017.
- Author, “One Year Later: The Clean Power Plan,” frESH Law Blog, October 31, 2016.
- Co-author, “Deadline for TSCA Chemical Data Reporting Extended to October 31, 2016,” frESH Law Blog, September 29, 2016.
- Co-author, “US Supreme Court Rules Against the Corps and in Favor of Landowners With Respect to the Reviewability of Jurisdictional Determinations, Reserving for Another Day the Full Scope of Finality under the Administrative Procedure Act,” frESH Law Blog, June 1, 2016.
- Co-author, “A Short History of Clean Power Plan Litigation as of March 2016,” frESH Law Blog, March 30, 2016.
- Co-author, “How Challengers Obtained the Stay that Put US EPA’s Clean Carbon Plan on Hold,” frESH Law Blog, February 10, 2016.
- Author, “US EPA’s Clean Carbon Plan Finally Published, Challengers Immediately File Suit and Motions for a Stay,” frESH Law Blog, October 23, 2015.
- Co-author, “US EPA Finalizes Revisions to Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard,” frESH Law Blog, October 2, 2015.