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Greg Wetstone
Director of Programs, Natural Resources Defense Council
Gregory Wetstone is Director of Programs at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a non-profit environmental advocacy organization with more than 550,000 members nationwide. He is broadly responsible for the strategic direction of NRDC's various advocacy programs, including the organization's growing web-based activism, as well as its efforts in the legislative, administrative, and judicial arenas. In his previous post, as NRDC's legislative director, Greg played a leadership role in the environmental community's successful battles against proposals to fundamentally weaken the nation's landmark environmental protection laws. He has written and spoken widely on environmental issues, and his commentary have been published in the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Atlanta Constitution, the Miami Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Diego Union Tribune and other newspapers and magazines across the nation. In 1997, Greg profiled by Outside Magazine as one of the most effective players influencing environmental policy in the nation's capital.
Before joining NRDC in January of 1995, Greg was Chief Environment Counsel at the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Health and Environment Subcommittee. In his 12 years at the Committee, he played a key role in negotiating and drafting a number of important environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1986, the Resources Conservation and Recovery Act, and the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act. Prior to joining the Committee staff, Greg was Director of the Air and Water Pollution Program at the Environmental Law Institute, where he co-authored a desk reference on pollution law (Air and Water Pollution Law 1980, revised ed. 1982) and a groundbreaking book on the acid rain problem (Acid Rain in Europe and North America (1983), reprinted in German as Weltbedrohung Sauer Regan).
Greg has a B.S. in biology from Florida
State University (1975) and a J.D. from the Duke University School of
Law (1978).
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