Gregory S. Berlin

• Represented a variety of companies in dozens of Proposition 65 matters, including cases involving dietary and nutritional supplements, pest control products, home furnishings, plastic and vinyl products, clothing, and alleged hotel and occupational exposures.
• Advised a Fortune 500 hotel brand on measures to ensure compliance with Proposition 65 “clear and reasonable” warning requirements across hundreds of hotels in California.
• Represented the world’s largest private-sector coal company in lawsuits brought by multiple California municipalities alleging climate change tort claims and seeking compensatory damages, abatement, punitive damages, and disgorgement of profits.
• Represented a mining company in California’s largest groundwater adjudication.
• Represented a major food processing company in a lawsuit alleging breach of contract and fraud claims related to alleged groundwater usage.
• Represented the client in a lawsuit alleging violations of stationary source emissions calculating and reporting requirements.
• Represented the defendant-intervenors in two Endangered Species Act citizen suit challenges to the California WaterFix Project.
• Represented the petitioner in NEPA, CEQA, and Endangered Species Act challenges to California’s Ten-Year Water Transfer Program. 
• Represented the petitioner in a CEQA challenge to a river restoration and golf course reconfiguration project in Lake Tahoe.
• Represented the client in a bench trial involving violations of local air district rules and regulations.
• Represented a homebuilding company in CEQA review for a mixed-use development project in Monterey, California.
• Represented the client in CEQA and NEPA review for an interstate bullet train project.
• Represented an international shopping center developer in CEQA review for a large-scale commercial development project in Los Angeles County.
• Represented a municipality in obtaining Federal Aviation Administration licenses and NEPA review for a commercial spaceport project in Georgia.
  
  

Greg Berlin is an associate with Alston & Bird’s Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Group. He routinely defends clients in high-stakes environmental matters at all stages of litigation in federal and state courts. He has particular experience litigating issues related to land use, development, energy, water quality, and endangered species.

Greg has litigated complex National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and Endangered Species Act (ESA) cases involving major infrastructure, commercial, and mixed-use development projects. Several of his cases have involved challenges to some of the most expansive federal and state water projects in the U.S. Additionally, Greg is well versed in compliance and litigation under California’s Proposition 65.

Greg received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of California, Hastings College of Law. During law school, he served as a government honors law clerk for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a law clerk in the Natural Resources Section of the California Attorney General’s Office, and a judicial extern to the Honorable Edward M. Chen of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. He received his B.A. in political science, summa cum laude, from The New School.

Bar Admissions

• California

Education

• University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D., 2016)
• The New School (B.A., 2013)

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