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: jbovey@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 RICK DUKE is the director of NRDC's Center for Market Innovation in New York. Prior to joining NRDC, Rick worked for McKinsey and Company, where his projects included leading a team that developed a novel global warming solutions map covering all major sectors. Rick also worked as an assistant economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, managed the Honduran office of a renewable energy company and consulted for the International Finance Corporation. Rick received his doctorate in public and international affairs at Princeton University, where he wrote his dissertation on the economics of public support for emerging energy technologies. He has published on a range of technology and economics topics. Press contact: jpowers@nrdc.org, 212-727-2700 If you are not a member of the press, please write to us at nrdcinfo@nrdc.org.