Anna Claire Skinner
Anna Claire uses her years of experience navigating environmental, heath, and safety regulatory compliance to represent governmental entities, individuals, and corporate clients, all with the primary goal of ensuring the protection of human health and the environment.
Anna Claire uses her years of experience navigating environmental, heath, and safety regulatory compliance to represent governmental entities, individuals, and corporate clients, all with the primary goal of ensuring the protection of human health and the environment.
Anna Claire represents governmental entities, individual consumers, and corporate clients, with the primary purpose of the protection of human health and the environment. She has litigated cases in both administrative tribunals and state and federal court from inception through settlement and trial. She has experience with numerous environmental statutes and regulations, including the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
Anna Claire is part of the DiCello Levitt team working with several states in investigating and addressing poly- and perfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) contamination. DiCello Levitt’s PFAS team works with state attorneys general in pursuing claims against PFAS and AFFF manufacturers for damage that PFAS has done to state natural resources and the environment.
Anna Claire also represents public clients in litigation seeking to hold the world’s largest fossil fuel companies accountable for decades of deception concerning climate change and the costs and other consequences that climate change is imposing on those governments.
Anna Claire is a leader of the law and briefing committee in In re Bio-Lab Class Actions, a case in which DiCello Levitt was appointed Co-Lead Counsel on behalf of more than 90,000 residents and business owners in Conyers, Georgia, and the surrounding area who have been affected by a catastrophic chemical fire.
Anna Claire and DiCello Levitt’s environmental team served as Co-Lead Counsel in the Rockton, Illinois community’s class action against Chemtool Incorporated, Grasley v. Chemtool, Inc., No. 2021-L-0000162 (Winnebago Cty.), for contamination resulting from a chemical plant fire that burned for days, which required the evacuation of the surrounding community and resulted in contamination of properties for miles around the plant, which settled for $94.5 million. Anna Claire and DiCello Levitt’s environmental team also joined with co-counsel in representing several residents and former residents of Union, Illinois in filing suit against companies responsible for polluting the groundwater with carcinogenic chlorinated solvents.
