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Elorm K. Sallah

Associate
Washington, DC

Associate, Washington, DC

T: +1.202.663.8135
T: +1.202.663.8135

Areas of Focus

Elorm Sallah is an associate in Pillsbury’s Energy practice.

Elorm’s work focuses on regulatory work, renewable fuel regulations and environmental litigation. Through his regulatory work, he provides thorough guidance on complying with NRC regulations, writes license transfer applications and amendments for radioactive materials licensees, supports the drafting of uranium fuel contracts, and supports the partners when representing clients in the adjudicatory stages of proceedings and upon appeal into federal court. He works on renewable fuel regulations concerning (i) incentives, specifically providing regulatory guidance for the Renewable Fuels Program, state low carbon fuel standards, state and regional cap-and-trade programs, and the drafting of power purchase agreements, and (ii) litigation supporting the representation of entities and renewable fuel trade associations’ interests in court concerning federal regulation. Elorm also works on environmental litigation concerning compliance with Clean Air Act permitting violations and natural resource damages claims under the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response and Liability Act.

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  • Advised radioactive materials licensee on its Nuclear Regulatory Commission and agreement state license transfer applications.
  • Assisted Holtec International in defending its NRC license against challengers in the Fifth Circuit and D.C. Circuit.
  • Assisted a renewable fuel trade association’s intervention on behalf of the EPA to support its biofuel volume set rules.

Representative Experience

  • Advised radioactive materials licensee on its Nuclear Regulatory Commission and agreement state license transfer applications.
  • Assisted Holtec International in defending its NRC license against challengers in the Fifth Circuit and D.C. Circuit.
  • Assisted a renewable fuel trade association’s intervention on behalf of the EPA to support its biofuel volume set rules.

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  • Monitor state advanced recycling legislation and regulatory developments and advise a plastics recycling company on its strategy of engaging with regulatory agencies to administer extended producer responsibility statutes for plastic waste.
  • Assisted in the successful representation of Port Hamilton Refinery’s challenge of EPA’s revocation of Clean Air Act permits.
  • Advising a utility in the Eastern US regarding NRC licensing issues associated with a potential project to build, own, and operate small modular reactors.

Professional Highlights

  • Appointed as Programs Vice Chair for the Nuclear Law Committee of the ABA Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources (“SEER”)
  • Reimagining Literacy: The Inextricable Nexus Between Subsidized School Meals and Basic Minimum Education, 6 HOW. HUM. & CIV. R. L. REV. 197 (2022)

Education

  • J.D., Howard University School of Law, 2022
    Merit Fellow Scholarship; Managing Editor, Howard Human & Civil Rights Law Review

    B.B.A., Information Systems, International Business, The George Washington University, 2016

Admissions

  • District of Columbia

Clerkships

  • Judicial Intern for The Honorable Reggie B. Walton, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, 2020

Languages

  • Twi

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