Charlie and the office team are primarily environmental lawyers who assist communities, organizations, tribes, unions and individuals across the United States in protecting themselves and their members from industrial pollution and chemical injury. Through litigation, negotiation, and grassroots campaign building, the team helps clients enforce our nation’s environmental laws and hold polluters and regulatory agencies accountable.

During his career at the Western Environmental Law Center, the Atlantic States Legal Foundation, and in private practice, Charlie has brought citizen suit and toxic tort cases concerning pollution and chemical exposure against dozens of Fortune 500 companies in more than 20 states enforcing a broad spectrum of environmental laws.  The firm has experience with many environmental statutes, including the Clean Water Act (CWA), Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), Clean Air Act (CAA), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), Emergency Planning and Community Right To Know Act (EPCRA), and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).

include actions against the coal industry, BP and Transocean for the Gulf disaster, large concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), and improper EPA actions.  Charlie also represents victims of toxic chemical exposure seeking compensation for and relief from their injuries.

Charlie with John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry on

booktour.

In Charlie's words "We advocate to give voice to the people whose voices are ignored or not heard and to the natural systems that have no voice."