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Home > Contributing Author

Paul B. Smyth

P.B. Smyth
Paul B. Smyth
Perkins Coie LLP

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Paul Smyth is Of Counsel in the firm's Environment, Energy & Resources practice. His practice centers on federal permitting and enforcement issues, including permitting for solar and wind energy facilities, electric transmission lines, and oil and gas pipelines as well as defending enforcement actions against federal lessees and permittees. Recently retired as the Associate Solicitor of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Paul is the recipient of the 2010 Environment, Energy, and Resources Government Attorney of the Year Award from the American Bar Association.

He has practiced law for over thirty-seven years and has broad experience in water, public land, offshore oil and gas, onshore and offshore renewable energy resources, Indian and environmental law. Paul supervised all the legal work for the Department of Interior (DOI) Solicitor's office involving minerals and offshore alternative energy matters for the Minerals Management Service (MMS) and minerals matters for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). He also served in numerous other legal capacities within DOI's Solicitor's Office, including acting as the Secretary's interim Director of the Office of Hearings and Appeals and Counselor to the Solicitor and Director of the Indian Trust Litigation Office.

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The Post-Macondo World of Litigation, Regulation and Transactions: No Longer Business As Usual

Risks and Responses to Risk in the Energy Sector
OGEL 2 (2013)

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Dr. Tade Oyewunmi and Mohamed Rali Badissy

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OGEL Call for Papers: Review of the Energy Sector in Ghana

Victoria Ayensu

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OGEL Call for Papers: Special Issue on Energy Transitions 2020

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Good Oil, Clean Waters? Ghana's Oil Decade and Environmental Protection

16 Dec 2020

A.B. Opoku Acquah

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The Hydrogen Hope? Challenges and Opportunities for an Australian Hydrogen Industry

15 Dec 2020

M. Taylor, T. Soliman Hunter

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Taxonomy Regulation, Principle of Technological Neutrality and Delegated Acts - Does the Draft Screening Regulation Comply with EU Law Requirements?

14 Dec 2020

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