Greg A. Christianson

• Represented an industrial company and landowner in connection with sediment contamination at the Portland Harbor Superfund Site in Oregon.
• Defended two multinational corporations in an environmental class action and mass-joinder toxic tort lawsuit in Florida.
• Represented a public entity pursuing an industrial operator for costs arising from perchlorate contamination.
• Defended a joint-defense group at the former Cal Compact Landfill in California against claims by the site owner and state regulators, and pursued contribution claims against 40 waste generators.
• Represented oil industry clients pursuing and defending cost-recovery claims at numerous sites.
• Defended an industrial operator against a Clean Air Act citizen suit based on alleged releases from a petroleum coke loading terminal.
• Advised clients in averting threatened litigation by nongovernmental organizations under the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act.

Greg A. Christianson is co-chair of Alston & Bird’s Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Group. His practice includes advising clients in cost recovery matters, natural resource damage actions, federal and state citizen suits, and other complex litigation matters. Greg also achieves results for his clients using alternative dispute resolution methods, including pursuing cost-effective, cooperative solutions with regulators, property owners, and potentially responsible parties to avoid litigation.

Greg defends private and public entities at sites throughout the country, including various federal and state Superfund sites. Greg advises both individual clients and joint-defense groups at a wide range of facilities, including mixed-use landfills, former mines, and other industrial operations. He has also pursued CERCLA, RCRA, and common-law claims through litigation and mediations, obtaining substantial funds for clients’ environmental cleanup work. In many cases, Greg negotiated creative settlements, including multiparty federal and state consent decrees, and has defended settlements against third-party challenges at trial and appellate courts, including the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Greg has significant experience working with experts in the technical aspects of litigation, including contaminant fate and transport, identification of potentially responsible parties, and the range of factors affecting multiparty cost allocation.

Greg’s work includes defending clients in multiparty toxic tort actions for personal injury, medical monitoring, and property damage claims based on alleged groundwater contamination, surface-water releases, and air emissions.

律師資格

• 加利福尼亞州
• U.S. Supreme Court

學歷

• Stanford University (法學博士, 1995)
• Princeton University (學士學位, 1989)

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