Emily E. Kimball

Emily Kimball counsels and advocates for clients on environmental matters, with a focus on the transportation industry. Emily's experience on environmental issues includes regulatory compliance counseling, enforcement defense, and advocacy before courts and federal agencies. She regularly advises clients on complex environmental matters arising under the Clean Air Act (CAA), both in the mobile source and stationary source context. She also has experience responding to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enforcement actions and with environmental self-audits and internal compliance reviews as well as voluntary self-disclosures under state and EPA audit policies and programs. 

Emily has worked extensively with railroads, rail car manufacturers and lessors, freight and tank car service companies, component suppliers, and other major players in the rail industry, on regulatory compliance matters, including those related to the transportation of crude oil and other hazardous materials. Emily also counsels and helps lead the Commercial Drone Alliance, an independent non-profit organization focused on moving the commercial drone industry forward. Emily represents corporations and trade associations before administrative agencies and quasi-regulatory bodies, including the EPA; the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and its agencies, the Federal Railroad Administration, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), and the Federal Aviation Administration; and the Association of American Railroads. Emily is a member of the leadership team for the firm’s Transport and Logistics sector focused on emerging transportation technologies and mobility services.

Prior to joining Hogan Lovells, Emily served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Wiley Y. Daniel, former Chief of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado and as a judicial intern for the Honorable Nancy E. Rice, Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.