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Larry Hartig
Commissioner, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation |
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Mr. Hartig is an attorney with more than 20 years experience in environmental law, regulations, permits and land use issues. Prior to his appointment in 2007 by Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, he was in private practice as an attorney with the Anchorage law firm of Hartig Rhodes Hoge & Lekisch, PC. Joining the firm in 1983, Mr. Hartig worked primarily on environmental, natural resources, and commercial matters. His practice included assisting clients in obtaining environmental and other permits for natural resource development projects, as well as projects involving environmental compliance, and cleanup of contaminated properties. Clients included government, private developers, industry and Native Corporations, among others. He also worked as a landman in the Land/Legal Department of Alyeska Pipeline Service Company between 1972 and 1976.
Mr. Hartig has a B.A. from the University of Utah and received his J.D. from Lewis and Clark College. He is a member of the Alaska Bar Association, and a former member of the State Board of Forestry. |
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Joan Hesketh
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Environment |
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Joan Hesketh was appointed Deputy Minister, Ministry of Environment on July 9th, 2007.
In 2003, she was the Associate Deputy Minister of the Environmental Assessment Office. She has held a range of resource-related executive positions during more than two decades in government, including Vice-President, Land and Water British Columbia Inc., Assistant Deputy Minister, Ministry of Energy and Mines and Acting Deputy Minister, Ministry of Energy and Mines. She holds a Master's degree in Public Administration and a Bachelor's degree in Economics. |
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Lisa Curtis
Administrator, California Office of Spill Prevention and Response |
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On September 28, Ryan Broddrick, Director of the California Department of Fish and Game, appointed Lisa Curtis to serve as Acting Administrator for the Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR). In November 2004, Lisa Curtis was appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger as Deputy Administrator of OSPR.
Prior to this appointment, Curtis held the position of Chief of the Office of Spill Prevention and Responseis Enforcement Branch since October of 2001 where she oversaw the Departmentis statewide pollution response and enforcement efforts. She served in various management capacities with the Department of Fish and Game from 1997 to 2001. This included managing the sport and commercial fishing enforcement efforts, public outreach, and hunter education in southern California. From 1991-1996, she was responsible for being the Incident Commander for moderate and large marine oil spills. She has a variety of experience related to Californiais coastal oil spill prevention and response efforts. Lisa Curtis was one of the founding members of the Standardized Oil Spill Response Management System (STORMS) Task Force that created and produced a spill response field operations guide in 1995. The field operations guide is still currently used by federal, state, local and oil industry personnel. In 1995, she was awarded a United States Coast Guard Public Service Commendation and a Department of Fish and Game letter of Commendation for this effort. She also earned the Office of Spill Prevention and Responseis Officer of the Year award in 1995. Lisa Curtis possesses a B.S. degree in Criminal Justice and a M.A. degree in Organizational Management. She is a recent graduate of the prestigious F.B.I. National Academy. Also, she currently maintains an Advanced Peace Officer Standards and Training (P.O.S.T.) Certification. She has been with the California Department of Fish and Game since 1987. |
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Laurence K. Lau
Deputy Director for Environmental Health, Hawaii Department of Health |
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Prior to his appointment to this position, Larry Lau served as a Deputy Attorney General for Hawaii since 1975. He served in the Environmental Law Regulatory Division from 1975 to 1981, in the Litigation Division from 1981 to 1990, and in the Environmental Law, Health, and Human Services Division from 1990 to 2003. During that period, Mr. Lau was detailed to the US EPAis Office of Regional Counsel in San Francisco from 1997 to 1998. Larry Lau has been a member of the Hawaii State Bar since 1974 and the American Bar Association since 1984. He received his AB cum laude in Government from Harvard University in 1971 and his JD from the University of Michigan Law School in 1974.
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Dick Pedersen
Interim Deputy Director, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality |
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Dick is the Interim Deputy Director of DEQ. He has been in that position since March 2007. Prior to that he was Administrator of DEQ's Northwest Region. The Region includes Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Multnomah, Tillamook and Washington Counties. He was in that position since April 2003. Prior to that and beginning in August 2002, he was Division Administrator for DEQ's Land Quality Division. He started his career with DEQ in September 1996 as Manager of the Environmental Cleanup program. He also was manager of the DEQ Water Division's Watershed Management Section.
From 1993 to 1996, Dick was the U.S. Department of Interior's project manager for a major natural resource damage assessment of a mining area in Northern Idaho. Prior to that, Dick worked 18 years for the State of Montana. His last position there was Manager of the State's Superfund and Natural Rescue Damage programs. |
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Jay Manning
Director, Washington Department of Ecology |
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Jay Manning was appointed by Governor Christine Gregoire in February 2005 to be the Director of the Washington State
Department of Ecology. Before coming to Ecology, Jay spent six years in private law practice, most recently as the managing
partner in one of the Pacific Northwestis leading environmental law firms, Brown, Reavis and Manning PLLC, where Jay advised
private and municipal clients on how to comply with federal and state environmental laws. He also worked extensively with
Indian tribes and environmental organizations. During this time, Jay was a lead negotiator in resolving the lawsuit over
the stateis shoreline management guidelines, achieving agreement among business, environmentalists and Ecology on the first
update to the regulations in more than 30 years. Before that, Jay spent 15 years working as an Assistant Attorney General,
including nearly six years as head of the Ecology Division, where he served as counsel to Ecologyis director and managed the
32-person division. As an Assistant Attorney General, Jay helped craft the Hanford cleanup agreement (Tri-Party Agreement)
and led the litigation team that prevailed before the US Supreme Court in a groundbreaking water-pollution case. Jay is a
fourth-generation Washington resident. He grew up in Port Orchard and now lives in Olympia with his wife, Lorraine. They
have three children. Jay received his bacheloris degree in political science from Eastern Washington University in 1980 and
his law degree from the University of Oregon in 1983. He enjoys all kinds of outdoor recreation, including hiking, camping
and mountain-biking.
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