Liz Glusman

Liz’s practice centers on environmental regulatory counseling for industrial and corporate clients with large geographic footprints, complex operations, and multifacility or multicompany portfolios. She knows that understanding clients’ complex operations and highly technical processes — whether supply-chain logistics, energy production, or construction — is key to helping clients tackle their particular legal needs. Clients rely on Liz’s ability to quickly immerse herself in their business operations to deliver practical and strategic guidance. Liz regularly interfaces with local, state, and federal agencies to assist her clients in navigating the regulatory landscape surrounding air quality regulations, water quality and discharge permitting, consumer product regulation, extended producer responsibility (EPR) programs, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues.

Liz has significant experience counseling clients on compliance with California’s environmental laws and regulations. Among other areas, she advises on California’s climate disclosure laws, including the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act (SB 253) and the Climate-Related Financial Risk Act (SB 261). She is experienced in California water quality enforcement actions and investigations involving industrial facilities, and has counseled clients on California Fish and Game Code and Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act matters arising from infrastructure and construction projects. Her California regulatory practice also includes hazardous waste compliance, hazardous materials management, and underground storage tank regulations.

Across multiple industries, Liz advises clients on compliance with extended producer responsibility (EPR) laws in the face of a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape. Her EPR practice spans financial institutions, packaging wholesalers, tobacco and nicotine companies, national restaurant operators, consumer and household goods manufacturers, as well as other industries. She helps clients understand and assess the applicability of states’ packaging EPR laws to their operations, develop compliance strategies, and stay ahead of new legislative and regulatory developments.

Her practice also encompasses deep Clean Air Act experience, including construction permitting disputes for offshore wind energy projects, major source permitting, New Source Review permitting, and permitting related to modifications of longstanding major sources.

Outside of her commercial practice, Liz uses her Spanish language skills to provide pro bono representation to monolingual Spanish-speaking refugees.

Prior to her environmental practice, Liz worked in commercial arbitration and litigation, copyright, and antitrust investigation defense. During law school, Liz was a clinical student in Berkeley’s Environmental Law Clinic, an editor for Berkeley’s flagship environmental law journal, Ecology Law Quarterly, and the Berkeley Journal of International Law, and a co-organizer of the 2019 Environmental Justice Symposium “Ground-Truthing Injustice.”

Prior to that, Liz was a paralegal in international litigation and arbitration in Washington, D.C. Her experiences working on high-profile disputes before international tribunals such as the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea sparked her interest in environmental law and inspired her to go to law school.

• Counseling clients with unique vehicle fleets on complying with California’s Advanced Clean Fleets and electric vehicle transition regulations.
• Drafting comments tailored to clients’ specific interests and needs in state and federal environmental rulemaking proceedings.
• Guides clients on ESG matters, including the applicability of and compliance with California’s climate disclosure laws (SB 253 and SB 261).
• Advocating for sensible locomotive regulations through direct engagement with the U.S. EPA on behalf of locomotive manufacturer.
• Guiding national logistics provider through high stakes settlement negotiations with a coalition of nine California District Attorneys offices for alleged violations of state and federal hazardous waste, hazardous materials, underground storage tank, and above-ground storage take laws.

• Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch: Environmental Law (2026)