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Appendix A
The Committee on Incorporating
Sustainability in the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
Bernard Goldstein, M.D., (Chair), is professor of environmental and occupa-
tional health at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health;
he also served as the dean of the Graduate School of Public Health. He was
the founding director of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Institute, a joint program of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and the
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)–Robert Wood
Johnson Medical School from 1986 to 2001. He was the chair of the Department
of Environmental and Community Medicine, UMDNJ–Robert Wood Johnson
Medical School from 1980 to 2001. Dr. Goldstein served as acting dean of the
UMDNJ–School of Public Health from 1998 to 1999, the first year of its forma -
tion. He is a physician certified by the American Board of Medical Specialties in
internal medicine and hematology and in toxicology. He is the author of over 200
articles and book chapters related to environmental health sciences and to public
policy. Dr. Goldstein was assistant administrator for research and development,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 1983-1985. His past activities
include member and chairman of the National Institutes of Health Toxicol-
ogy Study Section; the EPA Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee; and the
National Board of Public Health Examiners. He is a member of the Institute of
Medicine where he has cochaired the Section on Public Health, Biostatistics,
and Epidemiology. He has served as chair or member of numerous Institute
of Medicine or National Research Council committees. Dr. Goldstein has also
served as president of the Society for Risk Analysis, vice president and editor
in chief of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, and as a
member of the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council.
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Leslie Carothers is president of the Environmental Law Institute (ELI). ELI is an
independent, nonpartisan education and research organization working to protect
the environment by improving law, policy, and management. Ms. Carothers has
been a professional environmentalist for over 30 years. Before her election as
ELI president in June 2003, she served for 11 years as vice president, Environ -
ment, Health and Safety at United Technologies Corporation (UTC) in Hartford,
a diversified manufacturer of products for the aerospace and building systems
markets. Ms. Carothers also served as commissioner of the Connecticut Depart -
ment of Environmental Protection from 1987 to 1991 and senior environmental
counsel for PPG Industries, a manufacturing company in Pittsburgh, from 1982 to
1987. She began her environmental career with EPA in the air pollution program
in Washington, DC, in 1971 and later served as enforcement director, deputy re -
gional administrator, and acting regional administrator of the EPA New England
Region in Boston. In 1991, she was an adjunct lecturer on environmental regula -
tion at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Ms. Carothers is
a past member and chair of the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Audubon
Society and ELI and a past member of the Board of the Nature Conservancy
(Connecticut chapter). She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Strate -
gies for the Global Environment (Pew Center on Global Climate Change). She is
a graduate of Smith College and Harvard Law School and also holds a master’s
degree in environmental law from George Washington University.
Clarence (Terry) Davies, Ph.D., is a senior fellow at the Resources for the
Future. He is a political scientist who, during the last 30 years, has written several
books and numerous articles about environmental policy. He chaired the Na -
tional Research Council (NRC) Committee on Decision Making for Regulating
Chemicals in the Environment and was a committee member of the NRC report
Risk Assessment in the Federal Government. While serving as a consultant to the
President’s Advisory Council on Executive Organization, he was a coauthor of the
reorganization plan that created the EPA. His previous positions have included as-
sistant professor of public policy at Princeton University, executive vice president
of the Conservation Foundation, executive director of the National Commission
on the Environment, and assistant administrator for policy at EPA. In 2000 he was
elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He received a Ph.D. in American Government from Columbia University and a
B.A., cum laude from Dartmouth College.
John Dernbach is distinguished professor of law and director of Environmental
Law Center at Widener University School of Law. His scholarship focuses on
sustainable development and climate change, and he teaches a variety of courses,
including environmental law, international environmental law, sustainability and
the law, and climate change. Mr. Dernbach has served as director of the Policy
Office at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), which
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is responsible for developing and coordinating policy and regulatory initiatives
for DEP, including the integration of sustainable-development concepts into DEP
programs. Over more than a decade at DEP’s predecessor agency, the Depart -
ment of Environmental Resources, he counseled and worked in DEP’s mining
and waste programs and drafted four laws. Mr. Dernbach has written more than
30 articles for law reviews and peer-reviewed journals and has been an author,
coauthor, or contributor of chapters in 13 books. He is the editor of Agenda
for a Sustainable America (Environmental Law Institute Press, January 2009)
and Stumbling Toward Sustainability (Environmental Law Institute Press 2002),
which are comprehensive assessments of U.S. sustainable-development activities
that include recommendations for future efforts. He is a member of the Interna -
tional Union for Conservation of Nature Commission on Environmental Law
and served from 2005 to 2008 on the Roundtable on Science and Technology for
Sustainability of the National Academy of Sciences.
Paul Gilman, Ph.D., joined Covanta in 2008 as Covanta Energy’s first senior
vice president and chief sustainability officer. He is responsible for Covanta’s
safety, health, and environmental compliance programs, and for sustainability
initiatives that further reduced Covanta’s environmental impact while increasing
the use of its technologies. Before joining Covanta, Dr. Gilman was the director
of the Oak Ridge Center for Advanced Studies. He served as the assistant ad-
ministrator for research and development and science advisor at EPA from 2002
until 2004. Prior to joining EPA, he was director for policy planning at Celera
Genomics. Dr. Gilman was previously the executive director of life sciences and
agriculture divisions of the NRC. In addition, Dr. Gilman has held several senior
government positions, including associate director of the White House Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for natural resources, energy, and science, and
executive assistant to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy for technical
matters. He has 13 years of experience working on the staff of the U.S. Senate in
several capacities, including as a congressional science fellow sponsored by the
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Neil Hawkins, Ph.D., currently serves as vice president of sustainability and
environment, health and safety (EH&S) for the Dow Chemical Company. In this
global role, he leads Dow’s sustainability strategy and team and drives imple-
mentation of Dow’s transformational 2015 sustainability goals. Dr. Hawkins also
leads Dow’s global organizations for product safety, regulatory affairs, health
services, EH&S auditing, and remediation. Dr. Hawkins joined Dow in 1988 and
has served in a wide range of EH&S operations, and public policy roles across
the company. Dr. Hawkins is also a recognized expert in sustainability business
practices and environmental policy. He chairs the Strategic Advisory Council for
the University of Michigan Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise and
serves on the boards of Keystone Center, Global Water Challenge, World Envi-
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ronment Center, and Corporate EcoForum. He is also a member of the National
Academies Roundtable for Science and Technology for Sustainability. He holds
master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard University, School of Public Health,
and a bachelor’s degree from Georgia Tech.
Michael Kavanaugh, Ph.D., is a principal with Geosyntec Consultants, Inc., an
engineering and consulting firm with offices throughout the United States and
abroad. His research interests have included hazardous waste management, soil
and groundwater remediation, process engineering, industrial waste treatment,
technology evaluations, strategic environmental management, compliance and
due diligence auditing, water quality, water and wastewater treatment, and water
reuse. He has served as chair to the NRC Board on Radioactive Waste Manage-
ment and the Water Science and Technology Board. Dr. Kavanaugh is a registered
professional engineer in California and Michigan, a board-certified environmental
engineer in water quality and sustainability for the American Academy of Envi-
ronmental Engineers. He is an elected member of the National Academy of
Engineering. He received his B.S. in chemical engineering from Stanford Uni-
versity, an M.S. in chemical engineering and a Ph.D. in civil and environmental
engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
Stephen Polasky, Ph.D., is the Fesler-Lampert Professor of Ecological and
Environmental Economics at University of Minnesota. He received a Ph.D. in
economics at the University of Michigan in 1986. He previously held faculty
positions in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Oregon
State University (1993-1999) and the Department of Economics at Boston
College (1986-1993). Dr. Polasky was the senior staff economist for environment
and resources for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers 1998-1999. He
was elected into the National Academy of Sciences in 2010. He was elected as
a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009 and a fellow of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007. His research
interests include ecosystem services, natural capital, biodiversity conservation,
endangered species policy, integrating ecologic and economic analysis, renewable
energy, environmental regulation, and common property resources. He has served
as coeditor and associate editor for the Journal of Environmental Economics and
Management, as associate editor for International Journal of Business and Eco-
nomics, and is currently serving as an associate editor for Conservation Letters,
Ecology and Society and Ecology Letters.
Kenneth G. Ruffing, Ph.D., is an independent consultant and author specializing
in sustainable development, environmental economics, and development econom-
ics. Among other consultancy assignments, he has advised the United Nations
(UN) Environment Programme on the Green Economy Project, advised the Or-
ganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on sustainable
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development and on environmental aspects of policy coherence for development
and served as coordinator of the African Economic Outlook from 2006 to 2009.
He was formerly deputy director and chief economist of the OECD Environ -
ment Directorate from 2000 to 2005 where he took a special interest in the issue
of decoupling environmental pressure from economic growth. Prior to joining
OECD, he had a long career with the UN, beginning in 1971 while completing
his Ph.D. dissertation, entitled The effects of inflation on the structure and yield
of the fiscal system of Chile, at Columbia University. Dr. Ruffing has worked as
a development economist for the UN Economic Commission for Latin America
and the Caribbean; provided technical assistance in external debt management to
developing countries for the UN Conference on Trade and Development; repre -
sented the UN at numerous debt rescheduling exercises carried out by the “Paris
Club” of official creditors; was secretary to the UN Committee for Development
Policy, where he provided technical expert support for 10 years; prepared the UN
macroeconomic forecasts for the world economy based on Project LINK from
1989 to 1993; and served as deputy director for the UN Division for Sustainable
Development for 7 years. During his long career with international organizations
Dr. Ruffing has conducted research, undertaken scholarly reviews, and published
articles on a wide range of sustainable-development and economic-development
issues; environmental and economic development policy integration; natural
resource economics (oil and water); macroeconomics, external debt and finance;
trade, aid and development; development planning and its integration with public-
sector budgeting; monetary and fiscal aspects of public policy in developing
countries; and economic reform processes and economic convergence.
Armistead Russell, Ph.D., is the Georgia Power Distinguished Professor and
Coordinator of Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technol -
ogy. Professor Russell arrived at Georgia Tech in 1996, from Carnegie Mellon
University, and has expertise in air-quality engineering, with particular empha -
sis in air-quality modeling, air-quality monitoring and analysis. He earned his
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering at the California Institute of
Technology in 1980 and 1985, conducting his research at the Caltech Environ-
mental Quality Laboratory. His B.S. is from Washington State University (1979).
Dr. Russell has been a member of a number of the NRC committees, including
chair of the Committee to Review EPA’s Mobile Source Emissions Factor Model
and chair of the Committee on Carbon Monoxide Episodes in Meteorological and
Topographical Problem Areas. He also served on the Committee on Tropospheric
Ozone Formation and Measurement, the Committee on Ozone Forming Potential
of Reformulated Gasoline and the Committee on Risk Assessment of Hazardous
Air Pollutants. Dr. Russell served on two EPA Science Advisory Board subcom-
mittees: the Clean Air Science Advisory Committee’s Subcommittee on the
National Ambient Air Monitoring Strategy and the Subcommittee on Air Quality
Modeling of the Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis. He was
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also a member of the EPA Federal Advisory Committee Act Subcommittee for
Ozone, Particulate Matter and Regional Haze and the North American Research
Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone and California’s Reactivity Science Advisory
Committee. Previously, he was on the Oxygenated Fuels Program Review of the
Office of Science and Technology Policy, various NRC program reviews, and a
committee to review a Canadian NRC program.
Susanna Sutherland has a degree from the University of Tennessee in environ-
mental studies with forestry minor, and an M.S. in biosystems engineering tech -
nology with an emphasis on water quality. She has worked with the Tennessee
Department of Environment and Conservation and in the Tennessee State Park
system. She also worked with the Tennessee Valley Authority, first in environ -
mental policy and planning in both Alabama and Tennessee and later in river op-
erations and environment. In 2007, Ms. Sutherland came to the city of Knoxville
as the South Waterfront Development’s project manager and, in 2009, became
the city’s program manager of sustainability. Her current responsibilities include
implementing the city’s U.S. Department of Energy grants, staffing the Energy
and Sustainability Task Force, and chairing Knoxville’s electric vehicle advisory
board. Ms. Sutherland’s overarching goals include incorporating efficient and
sustainable best practices into municipal operations and promoting environmental
responsibility in the Knoxville community as an economic driver.
Lauren Zeise, Ph.D., is Chief of the Reproductive and Cancer Hazard Assess-
ment Branch of the California Environmental Protection Agency. She oversees
or is otherwise involved in a variety of California’s risk assessment activities,
including cancer and reproductive toxicant assessments; development of frame -
works and methodologies for assessing cumulative impact, nanotechnology, green
chemistry and safer alternatives, and susceptible populations; the California Envi-
ronmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program; and health risk characterizations
for environmental media, food, fuels, and consumer products. Dr. Zeise’s research
focuses on human interindividual variability, dose response, uncertainty, and risk.
She was the 2008 recipient of the Society of Risk Analysis’s Outstanding Practi -
tioners Award and is a national associate of the NRC. She has served on various
advisory boards and committees of the EPA, Office of Technology Assessment,
the World Health Organization, and the National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences. She has also served on numerous NRC and Institute of Medicine
committees and boards, including the committees that produced Toxicity Testing
in the 21st Century: A Vision and Strategy; Science and Decisions: Advancing
Risk Assessment; and Understanding Risk: Informing Decisions in a Democratic
Society. Dr. Zeise received her Ph.D. from Harvard University.
