Richard (Rick) Reibstein teaches environmental law at Boston University, and has taught at Clark, Northeastern, Suffolk, MIT, and Harvard Extension and Summer schools. Reibstein has published many articles on environmental law and policy.

He is the winner of the following awards: Healthy Kids Hero, (2016); Most Valuable Pollution Prevention Award, National Pollution Prevention Roundtable (2015); Environmental Merit Award, Individual Category, Region I New England (2000); and Al Gore’s Hammer Award for Reinvention in Government (1998).

While at the Massachusetts Office of Technical Assistance his work was key to the success of projects that won two Ford Foundation awards for Innovations in State and Local Government and state awards for excellence in government. He created and edits the following websites: The Environmental Citizen www.trunity.com/ec-blog; A Public Conversation on Lead www.leadconversation.net; and his BU Class “Research for Environmental Agencies and Organizations” www.bu.edu/rccp.