B.A. Yale University; J.D. Stanford Law School

Mr. Hostetler is the founder and principal of Hostetler Legal Strategy—a law and consulting practice focused on litigation and regulatory strategies to advance environmental protection and a clean energy transition.

Before founding his firm, Mr. Hostetler served for 29 years as an attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. As senior counsel, he supervised appellate litigation contesting Environmental Protection Agency rulemakings and other actions arising under the nation’s principal pollution control statutes. He led teams defending some of EPA’s most significant regulations, including rules addressing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and motor vehicles, methane emissions from oil-and-gas operations, and phasing out the use of hydrofluorocarbons. Mr. Hostetler received the Attorney General’s Mary C. Lawton award for exceptional lifetime service.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Hostetler clerked for Justice Esther Tomljanovich on the Minnesota Supreme Court and practiced at Crowell & Moring.