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Andy Fanning, Programme Manager of the EPA's Office of Environmental Enforcement, discusses the 2019 report of the quality and supply of our drinking water.

In this episode, Kevin Minoli, a partner at Alston & Bird, talks to former EPA General Counsel Gary Guzy, who served as General Counsel from July 1999 to January 2001. This episode is part of a year-long series of conversations with former EPA General Counsels.

In this episode, Kevin Minoli, a partner at Alston & Bird, talks to former EPA General Counsel Ann Klee, who served as General Counsel from June 2004 to July 2006. This episode is part of a year-long series of conversations with former EPA General Counsels.

In this third in a series of conversations with former EPA General Counsels, Kevin Minoli, a partner at Alston & Bird who worked within EPA’s Office of General Counsel for 18 years, talks to former EPA General Counsel Roger Martella, current Director and General Counsel for General Electric’s Environment, Health and Safety operations worldwide.

In this second in a series of conversations with former EPA General Counsels, Kevin Minoli, a partner at Alston & Bird who worked within EPA’s Office of General Counsel for 18 years, talks to former EPA General Counsel Scott Fulton, who now serves as President of ELI.

In this episode, Kevin Minoli, a partner at Alston & Bird, talks to former EPA General Counsel Avi Garbow, the longest serving General Counsel in EPA’s history. This episode is the first in a year-long series of conversations with former EPA General Counsels.

I am so pleased to present a very special guest this week, the Assistant Administrator for EPA's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP):  Alexandra Dunn.  Alex’s professional training could not be more perfect.  Alex is a lawyer and has practiced in both the private and non-profit sectors.  Alex has taught environmental law at several law schools and, while Dean of Environmental Law Programs at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, focused on environmental justice, a subject on which Alex has written and lectured extensively. When Alex’s appointment was unanimously confirmed by the Senate at the beginning of this year, many of us were excited and confident that Alex would lead OCSPP with her characteristic integrity, resolve, and warmth.  Alex’s leadership over the past five months has well supported our confidence.  Alex has shown a commitment to making the work of the OCSPP more transparent, and her team has continued EPA’s streak of hitting every one of the deadlines imposed by the 2016 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) amendments. As Assistant Administrator Dunn has spent just over five months in office, we sat down and talked about what it’s been like to take over OCSPP at this crucial time when post-Lautenberg TSCA is just coming into its maturity.  We discussed the challenges OCSPP is currently facing, and how Alex and her team have kept morale up while managing to meet all of the many deadlines imposed on OCSPP thus far.  We touched on the role of litigation in EPA’s work, plans for TSCA at 3, the significance of certain Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) registration decisions, and how to channel the many voices of such a broad range of stakeholders as those the EPA must address.  And finally, we talked about what to expect and what is to come for the remainder of this year. This was a fantastic opportunity to gain insight into what has been going on inside the OCSPP over the last few months, and what to expect from it in the next few months.  I really think you’re going to enjoy this one, so, here’s my conversation with Assistant Administrator Alexandra Dunn. ALL MATERIALS IN THIS PODCAST ARE PROVIDED SOLELY FOR INFORMATIONAL  AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES. THE MATERIALS ARE NOT INTENDED TO CONSTITUTE LEGAL ADVICE OR THE PROVISION OF LEGAL SERVICES. ALL LEGAL QUESTIONS SHOULD BE ANSWERED DIRECTLY BY A LICENSED ATTORNEY PRACTICING IN THE APPLICABLE AREA OF LAW.

What's wrong with the EPA's Office of Civil Rights? What's it doing to reform itself? And could it have prevented the Flint water crisis? We speak with Rachel Leven, Bloomberg BNA's environmental justice reporter, about problems at the EPA's civil rights watchdog and about who has been held accountable for Flint... at least, so far.

Eric V. Schaeffer has served as director of the non-profit Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) since he co-founded the organization in March of 2002. Eric’s vision of combining policy analysis, media outreach and litigation to advocate for more effective enforcement ofenvironmental lawsstill drives all of EIP’s work. Previously, Eric served as director of EPA's Office of Civil Enforcement from 1997 to 2002, where he received a Presidential Rank Award, as well as the John Marshall award from the Justice Department for his leadership in negotiating an industry-wide cleanup of petroleum refineries. Eric's career at EPA began in 1990, and included an appointment as special assistant to the Deputy Administrator. Prior to his service at EPA, Eric worked as an environmental attorney for two and a half years at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, and spent six years on Capitol Hill working for various members of Congress. Eric received his law degree from Georgetown University in 1987, and graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1976.