Lorie Schmidt
Partner, Massie Partners
About
Lorie Schmidt is a Partner at Massie Partners, after more than three decades of federal government experience working on cutting edge environmental policy and legal issues at the Environmental Protection Agency and on Capitol Hill. Lorie has extensive Clean Air Act experience, including over five years as EPA’s top Clean Air Act lawyer, when she managed a 40-attorney office, oversaw the legal counseling work on all Clean Air Act programs, and led EPA’s Clean Power Plan legal team. Prior to that, she held several legal and policy positions in EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation and Office of the General Counsel. Lorie spent five years as Senior Counsel for the House Energy and Commerce Committee under both Chairmen Dingell and Waxman, focusing on climate and the Clean Air Act. She was the lead staff architect of the cap-and-trade provisions of the Waxman-Markey climate bill that passed the House in 2009 and was a key negotiator of the renewable fuel program in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. Lorie, born and bred a Midwesterner, is a graduate of Harvard Law School and has a B.S. in Materials Science Engineering from Purdue University.
