Eimer Stahl represents companies in high-stakes environmental, products liability, and toxic tort litigation nationwide. Our attorneys defend complex cases involving alleged environmental contamination, defective products and failure to warn, chemical exposures, natural resource damages, and other claims involving products and industrial operations. We handle class actions, multidistrict litigation, mass actions and individual cases, government enforcement proceedings, and related appeals in state and federal courts across the country.
Our attorneys have extensive experience representing energy, chemical, manufacturing, and other companies in disputes involving alleged environmental and public-health impacts. These matters have involved groundwater and drinking-water contamination, PFAS and other chemicals, refinery and industrial operations, chemical releases and exposures, and alleged harms associated with fuels and other products. We also defend clients in environmental enforcement matters, including matters arising under the Clean Air Act, Superfund, and other federal and state environmental laws.
Eimer Stahl has significant experience in climate-change litigation, including representing CITGO Petroleum Corporation in 13 climate-change tort actions brought across the country. These cases involve claims seeking to impose liability for alleged climate-related impacts through theories including public nuisance, trespass, product defect, failure to warn, and alleged misrepresentations concerning fossil-fuel products. Our attorneys have helped develop and litigate core jurisdictional and merits issues in these cases in state and federal trial and appellate courts, including before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Our experience extends from the earliest stages of complex litigation through trial and appeal. Eimer Stahl lawyers have obtained dismissals of environmental and products liability claims, defeated class certification, tried cases involving alleged environmental and toxic exposures, and defended clients in government enforcement and criminal environmental proceedings. We also have extensive experience coordinating strategy in complex multiparty litigation and joint defense groups.
Recent Case Experience
National Climate Change Litigation – Representing CITGO in 13 climate-change tort actions nationwide. Eimer Stahl has secured significant dismissals, including of actions brought by Baltimore, Annapolis, and Anne Arundel County, with the Maryland dismissals affirmed by the Maryland Supreme Court.
City of Wausau v. Georgia-Pacific, LLC et al. – Representing Georgia-Pacific in litigation brought by the City of Wausau alleging that industrial manufacturers contributed to PFAS contamination of the city's municipal water supply.
ExxonMobil Oil Corporation et al. v. Mars Oil Pipeline Company LLC, et al. – Representing TotalEnergies in litigation arising from allegedly contaminated crude oil produced from an offshore well and delivered to an ExxonMobil refinery.
In re MTBE Litigation – Defending CITGO in long-running state and federal litigation brought by state attorneys general and water suppliers alleging widespread groundwater contamination from the gasoline additive MTBE.
Rougeau v. 3M Company – Defending BASF Corporation in a putative class action raising various tort and statutory claims for alleged PFAS contamination in Northern Wisconsin.
United States v. CITGO Petroleum Corp. – Secured acquittal of CITGO on three of five felony counts following a federal criminal trial involving alleged violations of environmental laws and successfully limited the potential fine to $2 million over the government's argument for a maximum fine of $2 billion.
Kraemer Brothers, LLC v. Nations Roof North, LLC, et al. – Successfully defended Georgia-Pacific Gypsum LLC against third-party complaint alleging claims under products liability, consumer protection, and tort law.
Dunn v. Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, et al. – Representing the Wisconsin Legislature in case brought by a group of youth alleging that certain laws are unconstitutional under various climate-change theories.
Chondrolysis Litigation – Defended a medical device manufacturer in more than 100 personal-injury cases filed in state and federal courts around the country alleging product liability and failure-to-warn claims.
Bland v. CITGO – Represented CITGO in a two-week jury trial arising from an accidental chemical release at a refinery, obtaining a verdict finding no permanent injury and only nominal damages for temporary respiratory injuries conceded at trial.
Price v. Martin – Successfully argued before the Louisiana Supreme Court for reversal of class certification in a community-wide pollution and diminished-property-value action.
Kelecseny v. Chevron – Defeated class certification in product liability litigation brought by Florida boat owners alleging that ethanol-blended gasoline damaged boat engines and fuel systems.
Wood Treatment Contamination Litigation – Represented chemical manufacturers in negligence, nuisance, and trespass class and mass actions involving alleged contamination from creosote and pentachlorophenol wood-treatment operations.
