Chloe Kolman

Chloe H. Kolman is a member of the bars of the State of Illinois and the District of Columbia. Her practice is focused on federal clean air and environmental litigation, and administrative advocacy.

Chloe is a 2011 graduate of Harvard Law School, where she served as the director of the Ames Moot Court Program and the 2010-2011 Environmental Law Program Fellow. Following law school, Chloe was a fellow at the Environmental Law Institute, before entering the Attorney General's Honors Program at the U.S. Department of Justice.

She joins Donahue, Goldberg, and Herzog after more than a decade of practice in DOJ's Environmental Defense Section, where served as a Senior Attorneys for Litigation Policy and Strategy and specialized in the defense of major Clean Air Act regulations. Over the last several years, Chloe led the defense of EPA greenhouse gas standards for power plants, oil & gas facilities, and aircraft; EPA's waiver program for California vehicle emission standards; and EPA's federal implementation plans under the Clean Air Act's Good Neighbor Provision. In that work, she argued several major environmental cases before the D.C. Circuit - including in Ohio v. EPA (2022 California ACC Vehicle Waiver) and West Virginia v. EPA (2024 Power Plant GHG Standards) - and assisted in the defense of EPA actions before the Supreme Court, among them EPA's first greenhouse gas standards for power plants in West Virginia v. EPA, 597 U.S. 697 (2022). Outside of litigation, Chloe advised federal agency clients on rulemaking development, complex settlements, and evolving questions in administrative law.

Chloe was the recipient of six Assistant Attorney General's Awards for Excellence, the Secretary of Energy's Achievement Award, and the EPA Administrator's Award for Excellence. She was also nominated by both Democratic and Republican administrations for significant awards within and outside DOJ, including the 2017 Attorney General's Award for Outstanding Contributions by A New Employee and the Federal Bar Association's 2024 Younger Federal Lawyer Award.