Mr Charles (Chuck) Knauss > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > Washington DC, United States > Lawyer Profile
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Offices
2200 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NW
WASHINGTON DC 20037
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Mr Charles (Chuck) Knauss
Work Department
Environmental, Environmental Justice, Air, Chemicals, Products and Hazardous Materials, Climate Change, Water, Energy Litigation, Land Use, Pipeline, Crisis Management, PFAS Interdisciplinary Team, Mobile Source and Fuels Regulation
Position
Partner
Career
Chuck Knauss has served US manufacturing and energy sectors for over 30 years as a national leader on laws and policies relating to climate, air quality, environmental, and safety. Chuck represents companies and trade associations on environmental social and governance (ESG) issues, permitting, enforcement, rulemaking, litigation, commercial, and legislative matters. Chuck is also co-leading the Environmental Justice Committee of the Law Firm Anti-Racism Alliance. His clients appreciate his skill in navigating complex regulations, high-stakes crises, negotiations, and precedent-setting litigation. He provides strategic advice for negotiated settlements with governmental regulatory and enforcement authorities and other stakeholders, which include those in the environmental justice and climate justice communities. His negotiation approach grounds legal and policy arguments on sound analysis of technical and engineering facts, which he couples with a fair and principled recognition of the core goals of all parties. These proceedings involve greenhouse gas emissions, air toxics, climate public nuisance and land loss litigation, investigations, and enforcement. Chuck was a lead congressional negotiator for the landmark 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments and “probably the most influential Republican on the legislation” according to Richard Cohen’s book, “Washington at Work: Back Rooms and Clean Air.”
Memberships
Admitted to the District of Columbia State Bar
Education
- JD, University of Michigan Law School, 1981
- BA, Brown University, 1977
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate