Paul Jacobson

Paul helps manufacturing, mining, and energy companies understand and manage federal and state requirements pursuant to the Clean Air Act, RCRA, CERCLA, Clean Water Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and state corollaries. Paul navigates site remediation challenges under CERCLA and RCRA Corrective Action. He helps clients obtain and manage a wide range of permits, including NPDES permits, air construction and operating permits, mining permits, water appropriation permits, and more. Paul helps companies with immediate and long-term responses to environmental disasters, including those that implicate Risk Management Plan and Process Safety Management requirements. He assists companies in responding to agency investigations, information requests, and enforcement efforts. Paul works on civil and criminal environmental and toxic tort litigation. He also helps clients achieve compliance and respond to challenges with California Proposition 65 product labeling requirements.

In the workplace safety context, Paul assists clients with all stages of OSHA inspections and enforcement, including OSH Review Commission litigation. Paul has defended companies in inspections involving a wide range of general industry and construction safety and health standards, including Process Safety Management, Permissible Exposure Limits, hazard communication, electrical protection, trenching, and robotics guarding.  He has guided companies as they responded to employee fatalities, bridge collapses, explosions, and crane failures.

Paul is on the Board of Directors of the Midwest Section of the Air & Waste Management Association. He regularly speaks and writes on environmental health and safety issues. While at the University of Missouri School of Law, Paul served as managing editor of the Missouri Law Review.