He has litigated cases under fourteen separate federal environmental statutes and tried precedent-setting environmental cases, including the defense of famed multimedia civil environmental enforcement actions, landmark environmental citizen suit cases, and novel cost recovery actions. He also has an active practice in natural resource litigation involving the siting of large scale energy projects and in biotechnology litigation. Chris is creative in litigation and crosses barriers on a personal level during complex cases, developing trusting relationships with his adversaries, a strategy which he has found to move cases through the process most efficiently.