JON P. DEVINE, JR. is a senior attorney with the water program. His work focuses on water quality and nutrient pollution in the Mississippi River Basin, the legal scope of the Clean Water Act and mountaintop removal coal mining and its impacts on bodies of water in Appalachia. Jon worked with NRDC's health and environment program for four years. Before joining NRDC in 2001, Jon was an attorney-advisor in the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of General Counsel. Jon was a law clerk for Judge Phyllis Kravitch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He received his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1996 and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1991. Before attending law school, he was an environmental specialist in the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. Press contact: moko@nrdc.org, 202-289-6868 DAVID DONIGER is the policy director of NRDC's climate center, focusing on policies to cut global warming pollution from power plants, motor vehicles and other major industries. David also leads NRDC's work to complete the phase-out of chemicals that deplete the earth's protective ozone layer. David rejoined NRDC in 2001 after serving for eight years in the Clinton administration, where he was director of climate change policy at the Environmental Protection Agency and, before that, counsel to the head of the EPA's clean air program; he also worked for a year at the Council on Environmental Quality. David first began at NRDC in 1978 and worked on clean air issues for the next 14 years, helping to win adoption of the landmark Montreal Protocol (to stop depletion of the ozone layer) and the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990. Press contact: eyoung@nrdc.org, 202-289-6868 DIANE DOUCETTE is the director of the climate campaign at Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), a national community of individual business leaders who partner with NRDC to help create and implement strong environmental policy. Diane works with businesses and policymakers to shape climate policy. Following her success in building the business support to get California's global warming bill passed, Diane is now building support for national climate legislation. Prior to joining NRDC, Diane spent 10 years working internationally with businesses and governments on telecom policy issues. She returned to the United States to work on climate policy issues in California. She is thrilled to have worked on Russia's first telecommunications law and then the first state law in the U.S. to cap economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions. Diane has a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Press contact: singre@nrdc.org, 415-875-6100 If you are not a member of the press, please write to us at nrdcinfo@nrdc.org.