Emily Schilling

Emily provides strategic counsel to companies of all sizes navigating complex air quality challenges. She leverages her technical skills and national experience to advise clients across industry sectors in the development of air quality permitting and compliance strategies, and to represent clients in enforcement actions and rulemaking proceedings before state agencies and the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Emily’s decade of experience in Washington D.C. counseling clients on federal air quality and climate change initiatives, coupled with her deep knowledge of air quality permitting programs across the Mountain West, give her insight into opportunities and challenges facing clients at both the state and federal levels. Emily also has substantial experience drafting comments and petitions for reconsideration on behalf of clients in federal Clean Air Act rulemakings and representing clients in challenges to federal rulemakings in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Emily leads the firm’s Environmental and Natural Resources practice group, one of the largest in the country at over 100 lawyers. She is a part of the Environment, Health and Safety team and frequently works with Jill Van Noord, Kelly Johnson, and Robert Ayers.