Richard Du Bey is chair of the Environmental and Natural Resources Practice Section and chair of the Tribal Practice Group. His practice focuses primarily on environmental regulation, water and natural resource law, Indian law, administrative law and inter-governmental negotiations.

He counsels private and public sector clients in regulatory program development and compliance, environmental risk management, hazardous substance cleanup, brownfield development, natural resource damages, and enforcement and tribal economic development.

Prior to entering private practice in 1980, he served for four years as Assistant Regional Counsel for the Seattle office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

“SCB has one of the most skilled and dynamic environmental practice groups in the region. Working on behalf of the Colville Tribe in a case involving legacy pollution from Teck Cominco, a Canadian company, we established the legal precedent that, when international law is either unavailable or not utilized by the federal government, American citizens have the right to apply US law to address cross-border pollution. In this case, it allowed us to protect the Columbia River, which is a national treasure.”

Richard was named a "Super Lawyer" in 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011, and 2012 by Washington Law & Politics magazine.  He is also a Martindale-Hubbell® Peer review Rated Lawyer of AV® Preeminent™ 5.0 out of 5.*

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