Steven J. Christiansen
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Steven Christiansen has over 25 years experience with environmental permitting (NSR) and enforcement matters, RCRA and CERCLA cleanups, air emission credits transactions, climate change, state implementation plan development, environmental legislation, NEPA, public lands permitting, environmental aspects of business transactions, brownfield redevelopment, and the administrative rule-making process. He also works in the areas of energy and public utilities law.
Mr. Christiansen actively represents mining, petroleum, chemical, energy, and public utility interests throughout the western United States and Canada.
Mr. Christiansen is licensed to practice law in Arizona, California, Utah, and Washington, D.C. He was elected as Chair of the Great Basin Chapter of the Air & Waste Management Association for 2008. As a member of the Utah State Bar, he has served twice as Chair of the Environmental Law Committee within the Section on Energy, Natural Resources and Environment. From 1990-2002, Mr. Christiansen served as an Adjunct Professor at the J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, teaching a course in environmental law.
Mr. Christiansen is asked frequently to speak and write on issues related to the environment, energy and natural resources. He has been a presenter at national business institutes, the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute, Utah Manufacturers Association, Utah State Bar, Arizona State Bar, the Cambridge Institute, the International Cogeneration Society, the Resource Recovery Institute, Air and Waste Management Association and the American Bar Association.
Mr. Christiansen was ranked as one of the top environmental and land use attorneys in Utah in the 2004 and 2006-2012 surveys conducted by Utah Business magazine and was recognized in the 2007-2012 editions of The Best Lawyers in America for environmental law. He was listed in the 2009-2011 editions of Mountain States Super Lawyers and he has also been named one of the top Energy & Natural Resources lawyers in Utah in the 2011 edition of Chambers USA - America's Leading Business Lawyers.
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