Elise Henry focuses on environmental litigation and handles toxic tort and enforcement matters. She also has experience advising clients with respect to environmental regulatory and permitting issues under various federal and state environmental statutes, including the Clean Air Act (CAA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). She has a particular interest in expert work and commits much of her practice to developing and rebutting scientific evidence.
Experience
- Operator of uranium conversion facility in a putative property damages class action, multiple personal injury and wrongful death actions, and a suit brought by local government entities, all under the Price-Anderson Act, concerning alleged radioactive emissions from the facility. This complex litigation involves allegations of property damages and health effects within the local community resulting from alleged contamination by and exposure to radioactive materials.
- Global container shipping company in litigation related to oil spill off the coast of Huntington Beach, California.
- Major chemical company on Clean Air Act enforcement actions and litigation related to the acquisition and operation of a Louisiana neoprene plant and its emissions of chloroprene.
- Energy company in connection with various environmental litigation claims that allege contamination of legacy well sites.
Perspectives
September 27, 2024
Are You Allowed To Say That Plastic Is Recyclable? A New State Lawsuit
Environmental Edge: Climate Change & Regulatory Insights
August 15, 2024
Best Lawyers in America 2025 Recognizes 91 Arnold & Porter Lawyers, Names Three as "Lawyers of the Year" and 80 as "Ones to Watch"
October 5, 2023
Environmental, Social, Governance: The Professional's Guide to the Law and Practice of ESG
Environmental, Social, Governance: The Professional's Guide to the Law and Practice of ESG
December 22, 2021
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Provides Support for Offshore Wind Development
Environmental Edge: Climate Change & Regulatory Insights
Recognition
Best Lawyers
"Ones to Watch" Commercial Litigation (2022-2025)
Credentials
Education
- J.D., University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, 2014, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif
- B.A., Judaic Studies, University of Miami, 2009, magna cum laude
Admissions
- California
- Louisiana