MLG’s 40 years of consulting expertise comes from Smith’s twenty years of creating environmental solutions combined with Service’s 20 years of program and project management. Both have consulted for non-governmental organizations, businesses, and government agencies.  
 
After Mr. Smith received his J.D. from Antioch, his first professional job was to help the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revise Superfund regulations to define how cleanups would comply with other laws. He beat a court-ordered deadline and his team got the EPA Bronze Medal. Shortly thereafter, Smith graduated from GW with a Masters in Environmental Law.

While Smith served as an attorney adviser for the Office of Enforcement, Smith had the good luck to work on the same litigation team as his uncle, William H. Merrill (Watergate Prosecutor), who was working at the Department of Justice at the time. Together, they brought environmental violators to justice. Partly because of his outstanding work with Merrill and partly because of his Superfund acumen, Smith was promoted to serve as a Special Assistant to two presidential appointees: the EPA Administrator and the EPA Assistant Administrator for Enforcement. He advised James Strock and William K. Reilly on EPA’s environmental litigation & headquarters policy. Later Reilly’s Chief of Staff, Gordon Binder promoted Smith to ghost write speeches and articles for Reilly and the Deputy Administrator Hank Habicht. After five years at EPA, Smith left to open a DC lobbying office for Environmental Systems Company (ENSCO).

At ENSCO Smith met two out of three lobbying goals and conceptualized, wrote, and helped direct a Telly-Award winning public relations video narrated by the late Edwin Newman, called High Temperature Incineration; Technology for the Environment.
 
After two years at ENSCO, Smith was relocated to New Mexico to consult for Benchmark Environmental. At Benchmark, Smith improved radioactive and hazardous waste management and solved an intractable problem LANL was having with transuranic waste at Technical Area 54. A year later, Smith was offered a job as a consultant at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). At SAIC, Smith’s client was Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia). At Sandia, Smith was awarded by Sandia for his work on the Environmental Records Filter. But Smith had an even larger challenge - Sandia’s Environmental Restoration (ER) Project.
 
Helping Sandia’s ER Project come up with an affordable and compliant approach to decades of waste mismanagement for nearly 100 various hazardous waste dumps strewn across 2,820 acres of Kirtland Air Force Base's 118 square miles. This was perhaps the largest, most challenging, and ultimately the most rewarding job of his environmental career, pre-MLG. Smith researched, conceptualized, advocated, and began to implement an innovative approach to hazardous waste cleanup called a Corrective Action Management Unit (CAMU). Smith’s CAMU provided for on-site treatment of the waste, beating the land disposal ban third third and saving the Department of Energy @ $25-30 million. Smith’s CAMU was totally compliant with RCRA Corrective Action Regulations. Smith’s CAMU cleaned up the environment at Kirtland Air Force Base and created many short term and long term local jobs.
 
Meanwhile, after SAIC lost the CAMU implementation contract to another bidder, the U.S. EPA Brownfields Office director contacted Smith with good news about her developing pilot project, the Brownfields Environmental and Economic Revitalization Program, inviting him to come back and get involved. So Mr. Smith returned to Washington as a consultant for DynCorp/CSC to consult for the Office Director of the Brownfields Program. His expertise includes:
 
- Brownfields cleanup and redevelopment;
- Hazardous and mixed radioactive waste management;
- Waste identification, containerization, placarding, storage, treatment & disposal;
- Superfund remediation and reuse;
- Public speaking;
- Script writing and speech writing;
- Regulatory analysis;
- Compliance assessment;
- Regulatory enforcement;
- Litigation and eDiscovery;
- Distance learning;
- Classroom/group training;
- Meeting facilitation;
- Notice and comment rulemaking;
- Negotiated rulemaking;
- Nuclear energy licensing;
- Commercial and residential energy efficiency assessments (not audits);
- Robotics and 3D printing; and
- Environmental, energy, and economic policy analysis.