My job at NRDC is to advocate for policies and programs, in both the public and private sectors, to reduce human exposures to toxic chemicals. Before I joined NRDC, I spent nearly 18 years at a consulting firm, working on environmental health issues for the US government as well as international agencies like the World Bank. It was a great job that allowed me to travel around the globe, dealing with people from wildly different cultures, addressing some of the most urgent and dire environmental health problems in the world. The downside: as a consultant I was enmeshed in every fact, figure and detail of policy analysis but never allowed to express an opinion publicly about those policies (that was, appropriately, the job of my clients). Finally the time came to leave the safe, analytical, observers’ perch and jump into the fray. Now it is my job to have an opinion; fortunately, I have opinions to spare.
Posted April 11, 2012 by Susan Egan Keane in Curbing Pollution, Greening China, Health and the Environment
More than 6000 water pollution violations from apparel factories in China – that is just one revelation in a stunning new account of water pollution from the Chinese textile industry, courtesy of noted Chinese environmentalist Ma Jun and his Green Alliance of activist...continued→
Posted June 2, 2009 by Susan Egan Keane in Health and the Environment
In my last post, I described my visit to small scale gold mining operations in Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo. The devastation of the land was stunning, but the truth is, I didn't come to Indonesia see the effects...continued→
Posted May 17, 2009 by Susan Egan Keane in Health and the Environment
About a month ago I found myself clinging with both hands to the back of a motorcycle, travelling through what looked like a desert landscape. In fact, I was in Central Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo, where the landscape...continued→
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