- Representing the developers of a supportive and affordable housing project in Venice, California in litigation challenging the City of Los Angeles’s approval of the project.
- Representing a real estate developer in lawsuits against the government and its contractor seeking billions of dollars in damages resulting from the botched cleanup of a former naval shipyard that is the subject of San Francisco’s largest redevelopment project in a century.
- Representing an aerospace company in federal and state cost recovery actions alleging perchlorate contamination in the Rialto-Colton Groundwater Basin.
- Representing oil companies challenging a de facto moratorium on the issuance of well stimulation permits by the State of California, including claims that state officials lack statutory authority to adopt a de facto moratorium and that the agency has implemented an underground regulation.
- Representing oil companies challenging ordinances adopted by the City and County of Los Angeles, declaring oil operations as a nonconforming use. The city’s ordinance also prohibits the drilling, redrilling, and maintenance of existing wells. The lawsuits include claims that the ordinance is preempted by state law, and that the ordinances interfere with the operator’s vested rights and represent an unconstitutional taking of property without the payment of just compensation.
- Advising a renewable energy producer in the development of anaerobic digestion facilities nationwide.
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- Phone: +1 213 576 2610
- Email: ytran.hoang@alston.com
Ytran’s background working in the federal government provides clients with innovative and insightful solutions for even their most complex legal needs.
Ytran Hoang is an associate with Alston & Bird’s Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Group.
She earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was part of the Harvard Environmental Law Review and served as a student attorney for the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic. Ytran earned her B.A., summa cum laude, in political science and economics with a minor in public affairs from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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PFAS Primer Quarterly Update April 2025PFAS Primer Quarterly Update: 2025 Q1 – setting the PFAS standardWelcome to the latest edition of the PFAS Primer Quarterly Update, our roundup of regulatory, litigation, and scientific actions involving PFAS. This quarter, states exempt PFAS products – except the states that don’t, defendants can remove PFAS cases to federal court, and courts stay challenges to the EPA’s PFAS regulations.PFAS Primer Quarterly Update April 2025PFAS Primer Quarterly Update: 2025 Q1 – setting the PFAS standardWelcome to the latest edition of the PFAS Primer Quarterly Update, our roundup of regulatory, litigation, and scientific actions involving PFAS. This quarter, states exempt PFAS products – except the states that don’t, defendants can remove PFAS cases to federal court, and courts stay challenges to the EPA’s PFAS regulations.
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General Publications March 25, 2025“After Fires, Calif. Must Streamline Enviro Reviews for Housing,” Law360, March 25, 2025.This article discusses the legal challenges developers face in rebuilding Los Angeles homes after wildfires.General Publications March 25, 2025“After Fires, Calif. Must Streamline Enviro Reviews for Housing,” Law360, March 25, 2025.This article discusses the legal challenges developers face in rebuilding Los Angeles homes after wildfires.
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Land Use Matters Publication February 2025Land Use Matters | February 2025 | CEQA Appellate Decisions & Other Legal DevelopmentsLand Use Matters provides information and insights into new CEQA and other land use appellate decisions and legal and regulatory developments, primarily at the Los Angeles City and County levels, affecting land use matters. In this issue, Gov. Newsom suspends CEQA for Los Angeles fire recovery, approval isn’t final if it’s appealed, and zero is not the same as low.Land Use Matters Publication February 2025Land Use Matters | February 2025 | CEQA Appellate Decisions & Other Legal DevelopmentsLand Use Matters provides information and insights into new CEQA and other land use appellate decisions and legal and regulatory developments, primarily at the Los Angeles City and County levels, affecting land use matters. In this issue, Gov. Newsom suspends CEQA for Los Angeles fire recovery, approval isn’t final if it’s appealed, and zero is not the same as low.
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PFAS Primer Quarterly Update February 2025PFAS Primer Quarterly Update: 2024 Q4 – setting the PFAS standardWelcome to the latest edition of the PFAS Primer Quarterly Update, our roundup of regulatory, litigation, and scientific actions involving PFAS. This quarter, the EPA drafts recommended PFAS levels for water quality, California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control has new power, and the road for one remediation claim leads to Rome (Georgia).PFAS Primer Quarterly Update February 2025PFAS Primer Quarterly Update: 2024 Q4 – setting the PFAS standardWelcome to the latest edition of the PFAS Primer Quarterly Update, our roundup of regulatory, litigation, and scientific actions involving PFAS. This quarter, the EPA drafts recommended PFAS levels for water quality, California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control has new power, and the road for one remediation claim leads to Rome (Georgia).
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PFAS Primer Quarterly Update November 2024PFAS Primer Quarterly Update: 2024 Q3 – setting the PFAS standard
Welcome to the latest edition of the PFAS Primer Quarterly Update, our roundup of regulatory, litigation, and scientific actions involving PFAS. This quarter, the EPA delays PFAS reporting, a compostable case won’t degrade, and Illinois keeps an AFFF suit in state.
PFAS Primer Quarterly Update November 2024PFAS Primer Quarterly Update: 2024 Q3 – setting the PFAS standardWelcome to the latest edition of the PFAS Primer Quarterly Update, our roundup of regulatory, litigation, and scientific actions involving PFAS. This quarter, the EPA delays PFAS reporting, a compostable case won’t degrade, and Illinois keeps an AFFF suit in state.
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Land Use Matters Publication August 2024Land Use Matters August 2024 | CEQA Appellate Decisions & Other Legal DevelopmentsLand Use Matters provides information and insights into new CEQA and other land use appellate decisions and legal and regulatory developments, primarily at the Los Angeles City and County levels, affecting land use matters. This issue, Los Angeles City Planning raises a pair of fees, college dorms can get loud, and SB 10 survives a constitutional challenge.Land Use Matters Publication August 2024Land Use Matters August 2024 | CEQA Appellate Decisions & Other Legal DevelopmentsLand Use Matters provides information and insights into new CEQA and other land use appellate decisions and legal and regulatory developments, primarily at the Los Angeles City and County levels, affecting land use matters. This issue, Los Angeles City Planning raises a pair of fees, college dorms can get loud, and SB 10 survives a constitutional challenge.
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PFAS Primer Quarterly Update July 2024PFAS Primer Quarterly Update: 2024 Q2 – setting the PFAS standardWelcome to the latest edition of the PFAS Primer Quarterly Update, our roundup of regulatory, litigation, and scientific actions involving PFAS. This quarter, the EPA announces drinking-water regulations, states continue to fight firefighting foam, and a court approves a preliminary $750 million settlement.PFAS Primer Quarterly Update July 2024PFAS Primer Quarterly Update: 2024 Q2 – setting the PFAS standardWelcome to the latest edition of the PFAS Primer Quarterly Update, our roundup of regulatory, litigation, and scientific actions involving PFAS. This quarter, the EPA announces drinking-water regulations, states continue to fight firefighting foam, and a court approves a preliminary $750 million settlement.
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PFAS Primer Quarterly Update April 2024PFAS Primer Quarterly Update: 2024 Q1 – setting the PFAS standardWelcome to the latest edition of the PFAS Primer Quarterly Update, our roundup of regulatory, litigation, and scientific actions involving PFAS. This quarter, the EPA proposes rules for RCRA, more states seek to ban PFAS in products, and science may have found potential adsorbents for PFAS.PFAS Primer Quarterly Update April 2024PFAS Primer Quarterly Update: 2024 Q1 – setting the PFAS standardWelcome to the latest edition of the PFAS Primer Quarterly Update, our roundup of regulatory, litigation, and scientific actions involving PFAS. This quarter, the EPA proposes rules for RCRA, more states seek to ban PFAS in products, and science may have found potential adsorbents for PFAS.
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General Publications April 19, 2024“The California Environmental Quality Act: Appellate Decisions,” Real Estate Finance Journal, April 19, 2024.This article reviews key appellate decisions involving the California Environmental Quality Act.General Publications April 19, 2024“The California Environmental Quality Act: Appellate Decisions,” Real Estate Finance Journal, April 19, 2024.This article reviews key appellate decisions involving the California Environmental Quality Act.
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Land Use Matters Publication March 2024Land Use Matters March 2024 | CEQA Appellate Decisions & Other Legal DevelopmentsLand Use Matters provides information and insights into new CEQA and other land use appellate decisions and legal and regulatory developments, primarily at the Los Angeles City and County levels, affecting land use matters. This issue, Los Angeles City Planning drafts another Citywide Adaptive Reuse Ordinance, San Diego County made a peculiar choice to overrule its staff, and contracts from the Sixties will live on to the (20)Eighties.Land Use Matters Publication March 2024Land Use Matters March 2024 | CEQA Appellate Decisions & Other Legal DevelopmentsLand Use Matters provides information and insights into new CEQA and other land use appellate decisions and legal and regulatory developments, primarily at the Los Angeles City and County levels, affecting land use matters. This issue, Los Angeles City Planning drafts another Citywide Adaptive Reuse Ordinance, San Diego County made a peculiar choice to overrule its staff, and contracts from the Sixties will live on to the (20)Eighties.
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- Vietnamese
Bar Admissions
- California
Education
- Harvard University (J.D., 2022)
- University of California, Los Angeles (B.A., 2018)