Bio

Kirstin Etela assists clients with complex environmental and regulatory matters in Connecticut, New York and nationally, including compliance, transactions, permitting, remediation, risk mitigation and emerging issues, including ESG initiatives, environmental justice challenges and the regulation of PFAS. She has successfully structured strategies to facilitate deals and mitigate regulatory and legacy environmental liabilities. Kirstin has experience developing and implementing EHS compliance programs, brownfields redevelopment projects, internal investigations, and crisis management planning and communications to address matters of public interest. She has substantive knowledge and experience with all major federal environmental, health and safety statutes and regulations, and many state requirements, as well as experience is several foreign jurisdictions regarding chemical regulation and remedial obligations. Prior to Day Pitney, Kirstin was the U.S. general counsel for a global environmental services company providing solid waste management, hazardous waste management, emergency response, and technical and field services to the pharmaceutical, oil and gas, and manufacturing industries, as well as to municipal, state and federal agencies. Kirstin served in a legal externship with Judge Barrington D. Parker in the Federal District Court of New York and as an intern at the White House Counsel on Environmental Quality, Executive Office of the President, where she focused on U.S. policy toward illegal logging in the developing world.