About Barbara J. Goldsmith & Company

Barbara J Goldsmith & Company was founded in 1988 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We moved our headquarters to Washington, DC in 2002 and established a Brussels office in 2004. The strategic locations of our offices has enabled us to very effectively serve our clients operating across multiple continents as well as allow easy access to the many governmental entities with which we interface.

Services are provided to individual industrial companies in every sector, groups of companies seeking common information and advocacy development, law firms, consulting firms, multinational organizations and others. We are small enough to customize services, be cost-effective for our clients, and jump on a project quickly. We have a long history of approaching issues on three fronts -- legal, scientific and technical -- and we are proud of the many publications we have sponsored or authored, notably in peer-reviewed journals. We have long-established partnerships with government, tribal authorities, universities and others, all aimed at helping our clients and advancing the environmental and energy practice arenas. We have the experience, resources and agility to help our clients manage and address environmental and energy risks – and opportunities -- in response to increasing legal, regulatory and societal demands.

We work with major companies in every sector, providing strategic advice, analytical and litigation support, project management, preparation of diverse external and internal documentation on the full gamut of environmental and energy issues with special emphasis on risk management, environmental and product stewardship and natural resource liability containment. Our clients include some of the largest companies in the world. We have worked closely from Chairman of the Board, to CEO, to General Counsel, Senior Counsel, EHS and Sustainability officers and more.

Our long-established partnerships with government, tribal authorities, universities and others, help our clients and advance environmental and energy practice arenas. We pioneered sustainability considerations long before the term came into common use and we have been national and international leaders in the natural resource damage assessment and restoration arena. Since our consulting firm was founded, there have been vast changes in corporate environmental practice and our company has continued to evolve in response.

Assistance is provided in five broad areas:

• Corporate Environmental Management and Strategy
• Litigation/Mediation Support
• Environment and Energy Policy
• Legislative/Regulatory Analysis and Innovation
• International Environmental Planning

Environmental areas covered include:

• Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration
• EU Environmental Liability Directive
• Resource Inventories and Restoration
• Climate Change Mitigation
• Emergning Contaminants
• Biodiversity Conservation
• Sustainable Business Initiatives, Corporate Environmental Stewardship & ESG
• Cross-Media Environmental Management including Risk Evaluations
• Environmental Aspects of Land Development including Brownfields
• Comparative International Environmental Law
• Environmental and Energy Technology Evaluation
• Environmental Information to Optimize Policy and Business Decisions