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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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Doug Konkin
Deputy Minister, British Columbia Ministry of Environment |
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Doug Konkin was appointed Deputy Minister, Ministry of Environment, on January 20, 2009. He previously served as Deputy Minister, Ministry of Forests and Range since June 30, 2003. Doug has a Bachelor of Science in Forestry Degree from the University of Alberta and a Forest Resource Diploma from the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Doug has been in working in the BC public sector for 30 years. Doug believes strongly that it his role as a senior leader to ensure that the people of the Ministry of Environment will be different and better tomorrow than they are today, in part because the world will be different. By focusing on people, Doug and his executive cadre are creating a sustainable and energized workforce which continuously improves the Ministry's business and people practices.
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Steve Edinger
Administrator, California Office of Spill Prevention and Responser |
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Steve Edinger, a former park ranger and game warden, has been chosen to head California's Office of Oil Spill Prevention and Response within the Department of Fish & Game. Edinger has an extensive background in incident response. He handled the Department's incident command and communications operation during the Cosco Busan oil spill on San Francisco Bay, Nov. 7, 2007. Since May 2005, Edinger has served as an assistant chief for the Office of Oil Spill Prevention and Response. He began his career with the department in 1992 as a warden, after eight years of work as a California State Park ranger and three years as a National Park Service ranger. From 1992-97, he was a boarding officer on the DFG patrol boat Broadbill, out of Humboldt Bay. In 1997, Edinger became OSPR's Southern California patrol lieutenant. Three years later, he was promoted to captain. He was the state incident commander at the Torch/Platform Irene spill in 1997 and during the 2005 Ventura Oiled Bird incident. Edinger received a bachelor's degree in environmental planning from the University of California at Davis.
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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
Director, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality |
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Dick was named Director of DEQ in June, 2008. He had served as Deputy Director since March 2007. Dick served as Administrator of DEQ's Northwest Region since April 2003, and was Division Administrator for DEQ's Land Quality Division since August 2002. 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. Pedersen holds a bachelor of art and combined science degree in Biology and Chemistry from Carroll College, Helena, Montana.
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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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