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Nathan Block is a litigator and environmental attorney with bp. He has 25 years of experience focused on environmental litigation, remediation, regulatory compliance and transactional due diligence. From April 2010 until June of 2016, he worked on the spill response and litigation for the Deepwater Horizon accident. His most recent work has focused on supporting BP’s Remediation Management function in the resolution of Superfund / CERCLA liabilities at a variety of industrial facilities and discontinued mining operations. Nathan has been with bp since 2008. Prior to joining BP, he was in private practice with the Houston office of Winstead, PC. He has also practiced environmental enforcement in the Litigation Division of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and worked in-house for a national environmental engineering and consulting company. He is also a mediator and adjunct professor at the Univ. of Houston Law Center teaching a course entitled “Negotiation and Creative Problem Solving”.