Selena Kyle

Selena Kyle focuses on complex evidentiary litigation and environmental justice-oriented matters. She leads NRDC’s legal efforts to eliminate the unreasonable risks to people and the environment posed by refinery use of the chemical hydrogen fluoride, which can form poison clouds. She was lead trial counsel for the remedy phase of a Clean Air Act citizen suit that mandated the Peoria-area E.D. Edwards plant’s 2022 closure and provided nearly $9.5 million for local bus electrification, low-income household energy-efficiency, solar, lung health, and job training projects. Kyle has helped NRDC and environmental justice partners curb methylene chloride and metal-shredding pollution on Chicago’s South Side; protect a rural Tennessee landfill’s neighbors from toxic air and water contamination; defeat Monsanto’s challenge to California's identification of Roundup’s active ingredient (glyphosate) as a carcinogen; abate pollution in Los Angeles rivers and ocean waters; and block a legislative raid of $155 million collected from state taxpayers to boost homes’ energy efficiency and affordability.

Kyle received the 2020 American Constitution Society's Ruth Goldman Award, for women in the Chicago legal community who have made significant contributions to advance the status of women in the legal profession. In 2012, she was named one of California’s top 50 lawyers in their first decade of practice by The Recorder, a California legal newspaper. Before joining NRDC, Kyle clerked for the Honorable Susan J. Dlott on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. She holds a bachelor's degree in economics and urban studies and a JD from Stanford University. She is based in NRDC's Chicago office.

State Bar Admissions

California
Illinois
Ohio (inactive)

Court Admissions

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Supreme Court of the United States

Awards and Memberships

2012 California Lawyer on the Fast Track
2020 American Constitution Society Legal Legend/Ruth Goldman Award
 

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