Mr. Gablehouse maintains an active environmental practice focused on identification of liabilities and cleanup projects. This includes active involvement in administration of emergency planning, emergency response and community right-to-know programs. His roles include being a past member of the Colorado Emergency Planning Commission, having completed seven terms as a Governor’s appointee, and chairing the Local Emergency Planning Committee - Citizen Corp Council for Jefferson County. He was a member of the Federal Advisory Committee for EPA on Accident Prevention and a participant in EPA’s Presidential Review Stakeholders Conference on EPCRA. He is a member of InfraGard, and is serving a second term on the Executive Committee of the Denver Member’s Alliance which works in close cooperate with the FBI on infrastructure protection issues.

These emergency planning activities have been recognized with the 1994 Colorado Emergency Management Association President’s award, the inaugural Colorado "Leonard Boulas" Haz Mat Award in 1999, and in 2004 with EPA’s Star Performance award. Besides being a frequent speaker on emergency planning, response planning and community right-to-know issues, he has twice testified before the United States House of Representatives’ Commerce Committee regarding emergency planning and response.

Internationally, Mr. Gablehouse was a speaker at the OECD Workshop on Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Response, cosponsored by the Government of Finland and UN/ECE held at Lappeenranta, Finland; the Workshop on Communication Related to Chemical Releases Caused by Deliberate Acts, cosponsored by OECD, NATO, OPCW, REMPEC/IMO, UNECE, UNEP and WHO held at Rome; the Workshop on National Response Systems to Protect Against Chemical Emergencies sponsored by OPCW held at The Hague; and the Regional Southern African Workshop on APELL, sponsored by UNEP and held at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa. He presented a paper on the public role in emergency response preparedness during the International Conference on the 20th Anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy held at I.I.T. in Kanpur India in December 2004 and a paper on the dangers of reaction by-products to first responders at the International Conference on Toxicology, Environmental and Occupational Health, held in Lucknow, India in November 2005. He is also a member of the OECD Safety Performance Indicators Expert Group and participated in the London meeting of that group in 2006 working on implementation of the OECD Guiding Principles for Chemical Accident Prevention, Preparedness and Response..

Litigation projects include an appointment as Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Colorado regarding the Rocky Mountain Arsenal environmental litigation; private party cost recovery actions as reported in the November 28, 1990, Toxics Law Reporter, page 826; the January 9, 1991, Toxics Law Reporter, page 974; City and County of Denver v. Adolph Coors Co., 829 F.Supp. 340 (Colo. 1993); the November 29, 1996 Environment Reporter, page 1586; United States v. Colorado and Eastern Railroad et. al., 50 F.3d 1530 (10th Cir. 1995); Farmland Industries v. Colorado and Eastern Railroad, 922 F.Supp 437 (Colo. 1996); Farmland Industries v. Colorado and Eastern Railroad, 944 F.Supp. 1492 (Colo. 1996); Aztec Minerals v. Romer, 940 P2d 1025 (Colo.Ct.App., 1996); and Mathews v. Dow Chemical, 947 F.Supp. 1517 (Colo. 1996). Mr. Gablehouse is also active in the prosecution and defense of a series of complex actions involving property cleanup matters.

Representative research projects include serving on the project advisory committee for the AWWaRF projects on "Risk Analysis Strategies For More Credible and Defensible [water] Utility Decisions" and "Development of a Risk Management Culture"; the state-wide hazardous materials capacity and risk assessment study for Colorado; the CAA 112r Risk Management Planning implementation guidance and video used throughout EPA Region 8; Chair of the Expert Peer Review Committee for the EPA/OSHA Joint Chemical Accident Investigation Report regarding a major chemical accident at Napp Technologies, Inc., Lodi, New Jersey; and participated in the preparation of homeland security related mutual aid and Emergency Operations Plans for the Colorado North Central planning region. Mr. Gablehouse has also served on Colorado’s Homeland Security equipment grant review committee.

He holds a JD and MBA from the University of Denver, where he serves as an adjunct faculty member in the University of Denver’s University College environmental policy and management masters degree program, and a BA in Environmental Biology from the University of Colorado.