Sidley Austin LLP

Environmental, Health, and Safety 

Partner

JUSTIN SAVAGE is global co-leader of the firm’s Environmental, Health, and Safety practice and leads the Automotive and Mobility sector team. Justin focuses on high-stakes environmental, health, and safety litigation and strategic counseling, including government enforcement actions, internal investigations, and rulemaking challenges. Justin is recognized for “his litigation and trial prowess in major environmental cases” and his “understanding of regulators’ viewpoints” (2017) by Chambers USA, which has ranked him for Environment in District of Columbia (2017–2024) and Transport: Road (Automotive) in USA – Nationwide (2023–2024). Other market recognitions include receiving the Law360 “MVP” Award (2018, 2024) and the National Law Journal’s “Energy & Environment Trailblazer” (2021).

Justin’s clients concentrate in heavily regulated industries, including auto and mobility, energy, refining, chemicals, wood products, and mining. Justin litigates and counsels across the spectrum of U.S. environmental, transportation, and administrative laws, including the Clean Air Act (Title I, mobile sources, and fuels), climate change, incident response, RMP, NHTSA, Clean Water Act, CSB investigations, TSCA, CERCLA, RCRA, APA claims, FOIA litigation, NEPA, and the Safe Drinking Water Act.