The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is a division of the Executive Office of the President that coordinates federal environmental efforts in the United States and works closely with agencies and other White House offices on the development of environmental and energy policies and initiatives.
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is a United States environmental law that promotes the enhancement of the environment and established the President's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). The law was enacted on January 1,1970. To date,more than 100 nations around the world have enacted national environmental policies modeled after NEPA.
Carol Martha Browner is an American lawyer,environmentalist,and businesswoman,who served as director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011. Browner previously served as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001. She currently works as a Senior Counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group,a global business strategy firm.
William Kane Reilly was Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President George H. W. Bush. He has served as president of World Wildlife Fund,as a founder or advisor to several business ventures,and on many boards of directors. In 2010,he was appointed by President Barack Obama co-chair of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling to investigate the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Patricia Lynn Scarlett is a US environmental policy executive and analyst. She is the Chief External Affairs Officer at the Nature Conservancy. She is a frequent commentator on environmental issues. She was the Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Secretary of the Interior from 2005 to 2009,having previously served as the Assistant Secretary of Policy,Management and Budget from 2001 to 2005. Appointed by President George W. Bush,Scarlett was sworn in as Deputy Secretary of the Interior on November 22,2005. In 2006 she served as acting Secretary of the Interior between the administrations of Gale Norton and Dirk Kempthorne. While at DOI she chaired the federal Wildland Fire Leadership Council (2004–05). She also co-chaired the First Lady's Preserve America Initiative on historic preservation (2003–08). She also chaired DOI's Climate Change Task Force,which examined the effects of climate change on land,water,wildlife and infrastructure. Scarlett convened and chaired the Department's Cooperative Conservation Working Group,and also represented the Department on an interagency cooperative conservation task force that planned and convened the White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation in 2005. In her management capacities,Scarlett served on the President's Management Council and its executive steering committee.
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is a council,chartered in each administration with a broad mandate to advise the President of the United States on science and technology. The current PCAST was established by Executive Order 13226 on September 30,2001,by President George W. Bush,was re-chartered by President Obama's April 21,2010,Executive Order 13539,and was most recently re-chartered by President Trump's October 22,2019,Executive Order 13895.
James Laurence Connaughton is an American environmental lawyer and the former George W. Bush administration environmental adviser. Connaughton served as chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Director of the White House Office of Environmental Policy from 2001 to 2009.
Dana Marie Perino is an American political commentator and author who served as the 26th White House Press Secretary,under President George W. Bush from September 14,2007,to January 20,2009. She was the second female White House Press Secretary,after Dee Dee Myers,who served during the Clinton Administration. She is currently a political commentator for Fox News,while also serving as a co-host of the network's talk show The Five,and is a book publishing executive at Random House. On October 2,2017,she began hosting The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino on Fox News. In early 2021,Perino left The Daily Briefing to co-anchor America's Newsroom with Bill Hemmer.
Robert Wolf is the former Chairman and CEO of UBS Americas as well as the President and Chief Operating Officer of UBS# Investment Bank.
David J. Hayes is an American attorney,former government official,and legal scholar who is an adjunct professor of law and the former executive director of the State Energy &Environmental Impact Center at the New York University School of Law. The State Impact Center is dedicated to helping state attorneys general fight against regulatory rollbacks and advocate for clean energy,climate change and environmental values and protections. It was launched in August 2017 with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies and is non-partisan.
Mona K. Sutphen served as the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011. She is currently Partner &Head of Investment Strategies at The Vistria Group,a Chicago-based private equity firm founded by Marty Nesbitt. From 2013 to 2019,she was a partner at Macro Advisory Partners LLP and from 2011-2013 was Managing Director at UBS AG,covering geopolitical risk,macro-policy trends and their impact on the global economy. She has also previously held positions as an American diplomat and served on the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration. She is the co-author of The Next American Century:How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise.
Nancy Helen Sutley led the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) for five years during the administration of Barack Obama. She was unanimously confirmed for that post by the United States Senate on January 22,2009. The CEQ coordinates federal environmental efforts and works with agencies other than White House offices in the development of environmental policies and initiatives;the chair serves as the principal environmental policy advisor to the president.
Mary Wakefield is an American nurse and health care administrator,who served in the Obama administration as acting United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2015 to 2017,and as head of the Health Resources and Services Administration from 2009 to 2015.
Rosina M. Bierbaum is currently the Roy F. Westin Chair in Natural Economics and Research Professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy. She is also a professor and former dean at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE). She was hired in October 2001,by then-University of Michigan President,Lee Bollinger. She is also the current Chair of The Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) that provides independent scientific and technical advice to the GEF on its policies,strategies,programs,and projects.
The Arctic policy of the United States is the foreign policy of the United States in regard to the Arctic region. In addition,the United States' domestic policy toward Alaska is part of its Arctic policy.
Brooke D. Anderson is Senior Managing Director for Operations at Pivotal Ventures,an investment and incubation company created by Melinda Gates to advance social progress in the United States. She was previously an American diplomat who served as a U.S. ambassador at the United Nations,as Chief of Staff and Counselor for the White House National Security Council,and as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State and the Under Secretary for Political Affairs on the Iran Nuclear Negotiations. She has served as a trusted advisor to U.S. presidents,Cabinet Secretaries,members of Congress,presidential candidates,philanthropists and business leaders.
Azita Raji is an Iranian-born American diplomat,banker,and philanthropist. She was nominated by President Barack Obama in October 2014 to serve as the United States ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden,and confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate in February 2016. She presented her credentials to His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden on March 15,2016,and completed her tour of duty on January 20,2017.
Mary Bridget Neumayr is an American government official,who served as the chair of the Council on Environmental Quality from 2019 to 2021. She was appointed to the position by President Donald Trump in January 2019 and confirmed by the United States Senate.
Cecilia Martinez is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Earth,Energy,and Democracy. In 2020,she was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People,nominated by New Jersey Senator Cory Booker for her work in environmental justice and climate policy. On September 5,2020,she was announced as a member of the Advisory Board of United States President-elect Joe Biden.
Brenda Mallory is an American lawyer specializing in environmental law who is the current chair of the Council on Environmental Quality in the Biden Administration. She previously served as director of regulatory policy at the Southern Environmental Law Center,and helped lead the Climate 21 Project.
