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Tania Galloni is the managing attorney of the Florida regional office, which has locations in Tallahassee and Miami. Tania is based in Miami.

Prior to joining Earthjustice, Tania served as the managing attorney for Southern Poverty Law Center’s Florida Office in Miami, focusing on juvenile justice and education reform. Before that, she worked at the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center (now Americans for Immigrant Justice) to advance and protect the rights of immigrants. She successfully litigated cases in the administrative immigration courts, Florida district courts and the Eleventh Circuit.

Tania also served as a law clerk for the Honorable Donald M. Middlebrooks in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida and for the Honorable Rosemary Barkett in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. After graduating from Yale Law School, Tania worked at Florida Legal Services, handling cases related to occupational exposure from pesticides and collaborating with farm worker organizations, state agencies, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to raise awareness about the dangers of pesticides and the need to increase occupational protections.

The Latest from Tania Galloni

May 21, 2024

In the News: Law360

D.C. Circ. Won’t Let Fla. Halt Wetlands Permits Decision

Quoted: Tania Galloni

"If Florida wants the program back, it has to comply with federal law. In the meantime, the Corps is more than capable of handling Florida's 404 permits, as it has for more than 40 years."
May 20, 2024

In the News: Politico

Appeals court denies Florida request for wetlands permitting stay

Quoted: Tania Galloni

"If [Florida officials] want the program back, they need to fix their mistakes, not dig into them."
April 26, 2024

In the News: Politico

DEP asks federal appeals court to allow it to issue wetlands permits

Quoted: Tania Galloni

“The bottom line is that the [Army Corps of Engineers] is open for business and the only thing standing in the way of 404 permitting now is Florida’s refusal to transfer applications.”
April 16, 2024

In the News: Law360

Florida Lost Its CWA Permitting Power. Now What?

Quoted: Tania Galloni

"The decision is incredibly important because it goes back to the fundamentals, which is that the Endangered Species Act means what it says. The judge was on really solid ground in his ruling. He's relying on decades of Endangered Species Act case law."
February 23, 2024

In the News: Politico

Permitting ‘Chaos’: Florida DEP to seek stay of judge’s wetlands ruling

Quoted: Tania Galloni

"The judge got it right. There's a lot of reasons this program is illegal."
February 22, 2024

In the News: Florida Phoenix

Court ruling stops Florida’s sloppy wetlands permitting, saves panthers

Quoted: Tania Galloni

“’It’s hard’ is NOT a reason to not comply with federal law.”
January 26, 2023

In the News: WGCU Public Media

Drilling firm challenging denial of oil exploration efforts in Big Cypress Swamp

Quoted: Tania Galloni

"If you consider that Florida is at one of the greatest threats of sea level rise and climate change from intensifying storms, the idea that we would drill for oil at all — and begin new drilling in the Everglades, one of the most ecologically sensitive parts of the state and for the region — it really makes no sense at all."
January 27, 2022

In the News: Florida Phoenix

Florida DEP’s handling of wetland permits has become a colossal ‘Charlie Foxtrot’

Quoted: Tania Galloni

“They are thumbing their noses at federal law and thumbing their noses at the EPA. It’s really outrageous.”
November 11, 2021

In the News: WUSF

A plan to drill two more oil wells in Big Cypress Swamp is being challenged

Quoted: Tania Galloni

"If you consider that Florida is at one of the greatest threats of sea level rise and climate change from intensifying storms, the idea that we would drill for oil at all — and begin new drilling in the Everglades, one of the most ecologically sensitive parts of the state and for the region — it really makes no sense at all."
August 11, 2021

In the News: Florida Phoenix

Dire report on global climate forecasts worsening problems in FL

Quoted: Tania Galloni

“Time’s up. Our state leaders keep talking about ‘adapting’ our way out of climate change, but the fact is we need to cut fossil fuel emissions. Florida has to stop living in the past – stop adding more fossil fuel power, like ‘natural’ gas plants — and instead needs to double down on solar and other renewable power sources.”
April 6, 2021

In the News: Florida Phoenix

Piney Point threatens Tampa Bay, but other FL estuaries are in trouble, too

Quoted: Tania Galloni

“This is what lax environmental regulation and enforcement gets us. The situation goes back decades. It turned into the taxpayers’ problem, and the state failed to do what was needed to keep people and the environment safe.”
January 15, 2021

In the News: Sun Sentinel

Environmentalists challenge EPA change that allows Florida to control wetlands development

Quoted: Tania Galloni

“EPA is lowering the bar to allow a state, for the first time, to run the federal wetlands program without meeting federal standards. Developers have called this the ‘holy grail’ because it would make it easier, faster and cheaper for them to get permits for big projects with less oversight and accountability for environmental impacts.”
January 12, 2021

In the News: WLRN

Opponents Say EPA Broke Rules When It Turned Over Wetlands Permitting To Florida

Quoted: Tania Galloni

“They are running so fast that they're tripping and they're taking shortcuts. And that's really sort of the bottom line. What they have done is just try to make the program effective immediately without following the process as required by law.”
La nueva ley de South Miami significará más paneles de azotea y menos combustibles fósiles.
August 9, 2017

South Miami requiere paneles solares en nuevos residenciales gracias a una visionaria

By Tania Galloni

Cuando hablamos del impacto profundo del aumento del nivel del mar, Miami, Florida, es la zona cero en el país. Las mareas altas inundan sus calles, la playa de Miami Beach ha tenido que modificar sus sistemas de alcantarillado y drenaje, y un pulpo ocupó los titulares hace poco cuando apareció en un garaje inundado.
Solar Panels at campground in Everglades National Park in Florida.
August 2, 2017

South Miami now requires solar panels on new homes, thanks to visionary youth

By Tania Galloni

South Miami becomes the first Florida city requiring solar on new homes.
When it comes to green slime, the Florida state legislature has missed a critical point.
December 1, 2016

Clean Lake Okeechobee's Water, Don’t Move it Around

By Tania Galloni

When it comes to addressing the green slime issue, the Florida state legislature has missed a critical point.
A series of environmental disasters has beset Florida’s phosphate mining industry, including the recent opening of a massive sinkhole 40 miles east of Tampa.
October 17, 2016

A Sinking Feeling about Florida’s Phosphate Mines

By Tania Galloni

A series of environmental disasters has beset Florida’s phosphate mining industry, including the recent opening of a massive sinkhole 40 miles east of Tampa.