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.
Environmental Defense Fund or EDF is a United States-based nonprofit environmental advocacy group. The group is known for its work on issues including global warming,ecosystem restoration,oceans,and human health,and advocates using sound science,economics and law to find environmental solutions that work. It is nonpartisan,and its work often advocates market-based solutions to environmental problems.
The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) is an environmental nonprofit organization based in Arlington,Virginia. Launched in 2011,C2ES is the successor to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. C2ES works closely with policymakers and stakeholders to promote pragmatic,effective policies at the state,national,and international levels.
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.
Lisa Perez Jackson is an American chemical engineer who served as the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 2009 to 2013. She was the first African American to hold that position.
Susan Elaine Dudley is an American academic who served as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA),Office of Management and Budget in the administration of George W. Bush. As such,Dudley was the top regulatory official at the White House.
The U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP),formed in 2006 and launched publicly on January 22,2007,is a co-operative group of businesses and leading environmental organizations. The group's primary purpose is to call on the U.S. government to require significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
The California Environmental Protection Agency,or CalEPA,is a state cabinet-level agency within the government of California. The mission of CalEPA is to restore,protect and enhance the environment,to ensure public health,environmental quality and economic vitality.
The environmental policy of the United States is a federal governmental action to regulate activities that have an environmental impact in the United States. The goal of environmental policy is to protect the environment for future generations while interfering as little as possible with the efficiency of commerce or the liberty of the people and to limit inequity in who is burdened with environmental costs. As his first official act bringing in the 1970s,President Richard Nixon signed the U.S. National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) into law on New Years Day,1970. Also in the same year,America began celebrating Earth Day,which has been called "the big bang of U.S. environmental politics,launching the country on a sweeping social learning curve about ecological management never before experienced or attempted in any other nation." NEPA established a comprehensive US national environmental policy and created the requirement to prepare an environmental impact statement for “major federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the environment.”Author and consultant Charles H. Eccleston has called NEPA,the world's “environmental Magna Carta”.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established in July 1970 when the White House and the United States Congress came together due to the public's demand for cleaner natural resources. The purpose of the EPA is to repair the damage done to the environment and to set up new criteria to allow Americans to make a clean environment a reality. The ultimate goal of the EPA is to protect human health and the environment.
The climate change policy of the United States has major impacts on global climate change and global climate change mitigation. This is because the United States is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gasses in the world after China,and is among the countries with the highest greenhouse gas emissions per person in the world. In total,the United States has emitted over 400 billion metric tons of greenhouse gasses,more than any country in the world.
Rajendra Madhavrao Shende,an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and former Director in United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP),is currently serving as the Chairman of TERRE Policy Centre which is a not-for-profit organization engaged in the policy development and project based advocacy on the sustainable development. Before August 2011,he was the Head of the OzonAction Branch of the United Nations Environment Programme,Division of the Technology,Industry and Economics in Paris.
The,United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began regulating greenhouse gases (GHGs) under the Clean Air Act from mobile and stationary sources of air pollution for the first time on January 2,2011. Standards for mobile sources have been established pursuant to Section 202 of the CAA,and GHGs from stationary sources are currently controlled under the authority of Part C of Title I of the Act. The basis for regulations was upheld in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in June 2012.
Robert Perciasepe is an American former government official who currently serves as a senior adviser of the nonprofit Center for Climate and Energy Solutions,following his role as President of the organization. He served as the Deputy Administrator and Acting Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during the administration of Barack Obama.
Sherri Goodman has had a multidisciplinary career as a national security executive,public policy leader,board director and lawyer. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Polar Institute and the Environmental Change &Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center,and Senior Strategist at the Center for Climate and Security. She is the Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate &Security. Previously,she served as the President and CEO of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership.
Stephen Oliver Andersen is the Director of Research at the Institute for Governance &Sustainable Development (IGSD) and former co-chair (1989–2012) of the Montreal Protocol Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP) where he also chaired and co-chaired Technical Options Committees,Task Forces and Special Reports. He is one of the founders and leading figures in the success of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer that has phased out the chemicals that deplete the stratospheric ozone that protects the Earth against the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation that causes skin cancer,cataracts,and suppression of the human immune system,destroys agricultural crops and natural ecosystems and deteriorates the built environment. Because ozone-depleting chemicals are also powerful greenhouse gases the Montreal Protocol also protected climate. Dr. Andersen was instrumental in the 2016 Kigali Amendment that will phase down hydrofluorocarbons once necessary to phase out chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) fast enough to avoid ozone tipping points,but no longer necessary now that environmentally superior replacements are available or soon to be available. For his ambitious campaign saving the ozone layer,Dr. Andersen earned the 2021 Future of Life Award along with Joe Farman and Susan Solomon.
Alexandra Dapolito Dunn is an American environmental lawyer and law professor,specializing in chemical and pesticide regulation,water quality issues,water treatment issues,urban development,rule of law,environmental justice,environmental conflict resolution,cooperative federalism,and implementation of the Clean Water Act and the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act. Dunn was an executive at several environmental management associations,and served as Regional Administrator for New England in the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),and Assistant Administrator for EPA's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention.
Mary Dolores Nichols is an American attorney and government official who has been the chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) since 2007. She also held that post between 1979 and 1983. From 1999 to 2003,she served as secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency in the cabinet of then-Governor Gray Davis. Due to her efforts to combat global warming,she has been dubbed "the Queen of Green",and described as "the most influential environmental regulator in history."
Durwood Zaelke is an American environmental litigator,professor,author,and advocate. As President and founder of the Institute for Governance &Sustainable Development (IGSD) in Washington,D.C. and Paris,he currently focuses on fast mitigation strategies to protect the climate,including strategies to reduce short-lived climate pollutants,in the context of the need for speed to limit anthropogenic warming to 1.5 °C.
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.
