Wesley Warren is NRDC’s director of programs. He is a recognized expert on federal budgetary and regulatory procedures, especially as they relate to environmental programs. Before joining NRDC in 2001, Wesley served in the White House as associate director of the Natural Resources, Energy and Science Division of the Office of Management and Budget. During his seven-year tenure in the White House, Wesley also held positions as chief-of-staff for the Council on Environmental Quality and executive director of the Task Force on Livable Communities. Prior to his service in the executive branch, Mr. Warren worked as a legislative aide in the U.S. House of Representatives for six years, beginning on the Science, Space, and Technology Committee, and then on the Energy and Commerce Committee. As a legislative aide, he worked on a range of Congressional issues including the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 and the Energy Policy Act of 1992. Before that, Mr. Warren worked as an energy and environment analyst for the Northeast-Midwest Institute, a policy center established to advise members of Congress on issues of regional importance.
Wesley received a B.A. and double honors in Economics and History from Wake Forest University in 1976 and attended graduate school in Political Science at the University of Chicago.
Posted November 10, 2011 by Wesley Warren in Moving Beyond Oil
There are a number of complicated questions around the proposed Keystone XL pipeline for Canadian tar sands but most of them have surprisingly clear answers. One is whether the pipeline would improve the balance of trade for the U.S. by...continued→
Posted October 17, 2011 by Wesley Warren in The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
Government can’t do anything right, say conservatives commentators. Take Fox show-host Bill O’Reilly who pushed the “muffingate” story about a law enforcement conference where the government bought muffins for $16 apiece to serve for breakfast. O’Reilly trumpeted this as a...continued→
Posted May 26, 2010 by Wesley Warren in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil
The accusations are flying in the hearing rooms of Congress. Leaders of three major companies were called in to testify, including BP Chairman Lamar McKay. Members of Congress wanted to know what happened at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig off...continued→
Posted May 11, 2010 by Wesley Warren in Moving Beyond Oil
Rush Limbaugh called me a wacko environmentalist. I must consider why. I had said the Gulf oil spill was a problem and the government should do something because of it. To me this view had the virtue of being a...continued→
Posted May 7, 2010 by Wesley Warren in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil, Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
The catastrophic Gulf oil spill has changed the politics of clean energy legislation. Americans want change and they want it now. Seven in ten say it's time to fast-track clean energy legislation that begins to break our dangerous addiction to...continued→
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