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CHRISTOPHER E. PAINE is the director of NRDC's nuclear program, where he has been a senior analyst for over 16 years. He came to NRDC after five years with Senator Edward M. Kennedy, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and two years with the House Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Power, where he worked on ending U.S. production of plutonium for weapons and a legislated cutoff of nuclear testing. Long associated with congressional and public campaigns to end the nuclear arms race, Paine is the author or co-author of numerous NRDC reports, as well as some 70 articles on nuclear proliferation and national security policy in publications such as Scientific American, Nature, Arms Control Today, Science, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He is a 1974 graduate of Harvard University.
Press contact: jbovey@nrdc.org, 202-289-6868
FRAN PAVLEY is a senior climate adviser for NRDC. She works with cities, states and countries on strategies to reduce their carbon footprint. Fran served as a three-term member of the California Assembly from 2000 to 2006. She was the author of AB 1493, California's landmark clean-car law, and was co-author of AB 32, the Global Warming Solution Act of 2006. Fran continues to work closely with NRDC's Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) to encourage the use of alternative fuels, renewable energy and clean technologies.
Press contact: eyoung@nrdc.org, 202-289-6868
ROB PERKS is NRDC's director of campaigns. He has led campaigns in Florida for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group; organized for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Virginia; staffed U.S. Sen. Max Baucus in Montana; directed field operations in more than a dozen states for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and headed the Pamlico-Tar River Foundation in North Carolina. Rob served as the director of communications for NRDC's Advocacy Center from 2001 to 2005, before joining American Rivers as senior director of outreach and communications. He returned to NRDC in 2007 to lead advocacy campaigns. He graduated from the College of William & Mary and earned his master's degree in environmental policy at the University of Montana.
Press contact: rperks@nrdc.org, 202-289-6868
DAVID PETTIT is a senior attorney and director of NRDC's Southern California air program. David's litigation and advocacy work focuses on air quality, public health and associated environmental justice issues in the most heavily polluted air basin in the United States. A 1975 graduate of the UCLA School of Law, David has more than 30 years of trial court and appellate experience. David plays bass and guitar in the Los Angeles Community Klezmer Band.
Press contact: jlass@nrdc.org, 310-434-2300
KATE POOLE is a senior attorney with NRDC's Western water project. She works to protect and restore freshwater habitat in the western United States, including the San Joaquin River and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in California. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan and cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School.
Press contact: cnoble@nrdc.org, 415-875-6100
JIM PRESSWOOD is NRDC's energy advocate in Washington, D.C., and serves as NRDC's lead lobbyist on federal energy policy issues. Prior to joining NRDC, Jim worked on energy and air pollution policy at several nonprofit environmental advocacy organizations in the Southeast. He received his law degree from the Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama, and his bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Tennessee.
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