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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. He is currently acting as Chair of the section. 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 a 2008 survey conducted by Utah Business magazine and was recognized by The Best Lawyers in America 2008 for environmental law.

  NEWS & PUBLICATIONS

• "39 Parr Waddoups Lawyers Named As 2008 Legal Elite", Press Release, January 15, 2008
• "Record-Breaking Enviro Fines Don't Tell Full Story", Energy Law 360, November 1, 2007
• "26 Ranked as Best Lawyers in America for 2008", Press Release, October 15, 2007
• "One Fine Mess", Environmental Protection, May 2007
• "Climate change: Guvs to team up", The Salt Lake Tribune, May 20, 2007
• "Parr Waddoups Announces New Firm President", Press Release, April 10, 2007
• "Rising temps may leave Utah without enough snowpack to meet water needs", The Salt Lake Tribune, April 7, 2007
• "Energy Industry Eagerly Awaits Duke Energy Verdict", Energy Law 360, February 23, 2007
• "38 Parr Waddoups Lawyers Named As 2007 Legal Elite", Press Release, November 27, 2006
• "California's Cutting Edge Laws", EnergyBiz Insider, October 20, 2006
• "21 Parr Waddoups Attorneys Ranked as Best Lawyers in America for 2007", Press Release, September 2006
• "28 Parr Waddoups Lawyers Named Legal Elite in 2006", Press Release, January 2006
• "The Huntsman Administration and the Environment", Utah Business, April 2005
• "New Source Review Reform Generates Polarized Views", Hazardous Waste, February 28, 2003
• "Is Bush Negotiating on 'Clear Skies' Plan?", Electricity Daily, February 24, 2003
• "Trials Begin For Utilities", Waste News, February 17, 2003
• "EPA Lawsuits Against Utilities on New Source Review Compiance Reach Pivital Year", Hazardous Waste, February 14, 2003

  SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• "Hazardous Air Pollutants: An Update of Activities Under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act," 2000 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute, Salt Lake City, UT