Nina Robertson

Deputy Managing Attorney

California Office

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Nina Robertson

Deputy Managing Attorney California Office

Miranda Fox
Public Affairs and Communications Strategist
mfox@earthjustice.org

Nina Robertson is a deputy managing attorney based in the California Regional Office.

Nina came to Earthjustice from Earthrise Law Center, the environmental law clinic of Lewis & Clark Law School, where she litigated National Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act, and Freedom of Information Act cases against federal agencies and took a deep dive into agricultural pollution matters before the California State Water Board. Prior to that, Nina spent a year working on environmental justice, hazardous waste, and state renewable energy matters at the Environmental Law and Justice Clinic of Golden Gate University Law School.

From 2012–2015, Nina was an appellate attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she represented federal agencies in public lands, endangered species, and takings cases before the courts of appeals.

Nina clerked in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and was a fellow at the Environmental Law Institute. She holds a B.S. and a J.D. from Stanford University.

Expert Posts & Articles

A worker at the California Independent System Operator grid control center in Folsom, Calif., monitors the state’s energy grid in 2017
July 6, 2021

Gas Is Failing California. It's Time to Move on.

We need to forge solutions and policy from modern technology, modern ideas, and a clear-eyed resolve that rises above fear.

Miranda Fox
Public Affairs and Communications Strategist
mfox@earthjustice.org

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