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Paul Connor is the Executive Director of NALGEP and Of Counsel for Spiegel & McDiarmid.  Paul joined NALGEP following a productive career at US EPA, most recently as Director of the Policy and Program Evaluation Division, Office of Site Remediation Enforcement, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, where he led a division of 35 professional staff in all aspects of EPA’s five site remediation enforcement programs:  Superfund, Brownfields, RCRA corrective action, Underground Storage Tanks, and the Oil Pollution Act.  At EPA, Paul developed new policies, established national goals, and tracked program accomplishments.  He also had responsibility for legislative matters involving enforcement issues in the five remediation enforcement programs, with an emphasis on Superfund reauthorization, Brownfields, and RCRA remediation legislation.  He led a team of PPED staff who drafted legislation, analyzed bills, and worked with other federal agencies, Congress, states, and stakeholders to resolve policy issues.  Previously Paul was Deputy Director of the same division (1993 – 2000); Section Chief, Guidance and Evaluation Branch, Office of Waste Programs Enforcement (1990 – 1993); Attorney-Advisor, Permits Division, Office of Water Enforcement and Permits (1987 – 1989); and Attorney-Advisor, Permits and State Programs Division, Office of Solid Waste (1986 – 1987).  Paul was a paralegal at Spiegel & McDiarmid in the 1980s.  He holds a law degree from the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College (1984) and a BS from Western Washington University (1979).   

Paul can be reached at paul.connor@spiegelmcd.com or 202.638.6254.

Farleigh Wolfe joined NALGEP in July 2006 as Project Assistant.  Before joining NALGEP Farleigh worked as an analyst at Lake Research Partners, and as a Legislative Aide focusing on Housing, Welfare, Education, and Arts and Humanities for Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon (9/01-8/05). Her other legislative experience includes serving as a Legislative Correspondent for Senator Wyden.  Her duties at NALGEP include administrative assistance, researching and writing grant proposals and articles. Farleigh graduated in 2001 from Mount Holyoke College with a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Politics.

Farleigh can be reached at farleigh.wolfe@spiegelmcd.com or 202.638.6254.

NALGEP is managed by Spiegel & McDiarmid, a Washington, DC, law firm which represents more than 400 local and state governments and consumers in infrastructure issues, and in particular in energy, telecommunications, environmental, and transportation matters.