Rob Perks's Blog
About
- Bio:
I run NRDC's Center for Advocacy Campaigns. Our shop exists to guide NRDC's policy and program experts in shaping and executing strategic campaigns on the insitution's priority issues. Our goal is to mobilize not just NRDC supporters, but millions of Americans in environmental advocacy. I started at NRDC in the legislative program handling media relations, and up until the fall of 2005 managed our popular and effective 'Bush Record' project. I left to build the Outreach & Communications department at American Rivers before returning to NRDC in the spring of 2007. During my 15-year environmental career I have led campaigns in Florida for U.S. Public Interest Group; organized the grassroots for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Virginia; directed national field operations for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER); and served as the youngest-ever executive director of the Pamlico-Tar River Foundation in North Carolina. I graduated from The College of William & Mary in Virginia and earned my M.S. in environmental policy at The University of Montana.
- Roots in:
- I was born in Washington, DC and raised in a small town south of Richmond, Virginia. My family remains in the Old Dominion but I live in Rockville, Maryland with my wife Karen, our 7year-old son Brooks and our dog Pearl.
- Favorite place:
- Cape Hatteras lighthouse in Outer Banks, North Carolina.
- Why "environmentalism" matters:
- Best summed up by a quote I read somewhere -- "To savor the planet, you must first save it."
Recent Blog Posts
- Urge the Obama Administration to Save Coal River Mountain (November 5, 2009)
- Facing Coal Hard Facts at Interior Department (November 3, 2009)
- Boo-Hoo-Hoo for Big Oil (October 30, 2009)
- EPA: Coal Ash Poses Significant Health Risk (October 28, 2009)
- It's the Economy, Stupid: U.S. Can Cash in on Clean Energy Legislation (October 28, 2009)
- USA Today Editorializes Against Mountaintop Removal (October 27, 2009)
- Support Wind, Save a Mountain: The Battle for Coal River Mountain (October 27, 2009)
- Henry Fair Captures Coal River Mountain (October 27, 2009)
- A Citizen's Plea for Coal River Mountain (October 26, 2009)
- Removing Coal River Mountain (October 26, 2009)
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- Rob Perks
- Director, Center for Advocacy Campaigns
- Washington, D.C.