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Bio:: As a senior attorney and the Director of NRDC's Clean Air Program, I work on national legislation, litigation and Environmental Protection Agency rulemakings that will have the greatest impact on ensuring clean air for all Americans. My work focuses on reducing smog, soot and toxic air pollution from power plants, factories, vehicles and other sources. I frequently challenge EPA rulemakings in federal court for running afoul of the Clean Air Act and failing to protect the public. I joined NRDC in 2000 from EPA's Office of General Counsel in Washington, D.C., where I worked as a clean air attorney for over three years. Prior to that, I worked as an associate attorney at a private law firm in Washington. I graduated from Harvard Law School in 1993, and graduated with a B.A. from Duke University in 1990.
Roots in:: South Carolina, east coast
Favorite place:: South Carolina Lowcountry, anywhere with my wife and son and daughter
Why "environmentalism" matters:: There's nothing more basic for me than healthy air, water and food, for this generation and future ones.

EPA Reconsiders Weak and Illegal Bush Administration Smog Standards (September 16, 2009)
EPA Restores Scientific Integrity to How We Define Clean Air (May 21, 2009)
Clean Air and the Rights of Spring (April 29, 2009)
Surely You Must Be Joking (February 19, 2009)
Such a Curious Dream: Obama EPA Abandons Bush Mercury Rules (February 6, 2009)
Clearing the Air (November 25, 2008)
Court to EPA: “Read the Statute. Read the Statute. Read the Statute.” (August 20, 2008)
What explains the Bush administration's air pollution agenda for power plants? (August 15, 2008)
EPA’s “Clean Air Mercury Rule” and the Dog Days of Summer (August 11, 2008)
Words That Utility Pollution Apologists Dare Not Utter (August 7, 2008)

Not-So-Elementary Bee Mystery: Science News Online, July 28, 2007: Good introduction to the alarming phenomenon of colony-collapse disorder striking bees in the U.S. ...