Brian Israel
Arnold & Porter
Arnold & Porter
Client SatisfactionFielding a team of skilled litigators the market-leading environmental practice at Arnold & Porter offers clients coast-to-coast expertise, handling a spread of climate change and environmental litigation cases to do with air and water, hazardous waste, toxic tort and contamination, in addition to Superfund and NRD liability cases. Practice chair Brian Israel splits his time between Washington DC, Los Angeles and California, predominantly dealing with contaminated sites, Natural Resource Damages claims and violations of the Clean Water Act. Also of the DC office, Michael Daneker defends federal and state enforcement actions and citizen action suits, Elissa Preheim specializes in toxic tort, PFAS litigation and environmental damages claims, while Lauren Daniel works with environmental disputes under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). Zachary Fayne of the San Francisco office is another name to note, his expertise lies in Clean Air Act counselling.
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Key clients
- BP Honeywell International, Inc.
- The Chemours Company
- Warner-Lambert / Pfizer
- Conservancy of Southwest Florida
- The Mosaic Company
- Shiseido Americas Corporation Coty Inc.
- McDonald’s
- Iogen
- Monsanto Company
- Bayer
- CropScience
Work highlights
- Serving as lead environmental counsel for Chemours on a range of regulatory, enforcement, and litigation matters relating to the discovery of chemicals in the Cape Fear River in North Carolina.
- Serving as lead toxic tort litigation counsel to Honeywell in the defense of a consolidated class action and more than 60 individual toxic tort suits in federal and state court arising out of the presence of PFOA in the groundwater and municipal water supply of Hoosick Falls, New York.
- Representing BP in 18 novel climate change lawsuits filed by state and local governments in California, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Washington and by a fishermen’s trade association.
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Elissa Preheim
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Brian Israel