Environment and Natural Resources Workgroup

John Griffin (Past Sec and Depty Sec DNR; Gen Mgr, WSSC, Current Consultant) Co-Chair

Mike Smith (Partner, Bodie, Nagle, Smith, Hobbs) Co-Chair

Sasha Leonhardt (Staff and liaison with O'Malley/Brown Transition Team )

Lara Lutz (Workgroup assistance)

Don Boesch (President UMd Center for Environmental Science)

Torrey Brown (Past Sec DNR; on many environmental Boards; consultant)

David Burke (Past Wetlands Administrator, Developed DNR Non Tidal Wetlands and Green Print Projects Burke Environmental Associates current consultant)

Margo Burnham (Director of Conservation Programs, TNC )

Chuck Fox (EPA Dir of Water; Asst Sec MDE, Sec DNR; VP CBF, currently Pew Charitable Trusts and chair of Md LCV Board)

Tom Haller (Land use Attorney, Partner, Gibbs & Haller)

Verna Harrison (Past Asst Sec DNR; currently Ex Dir, Keith Campbell Foundation)

Frank Heintz (Former: member House of Delegates, PSC chair, BGE President and CEO )

Roy Hoagland (VP,Science and Policy CBF)

Carla Joyner (Former Depty Gen Mgr, WSSC)

Tom Lingan (Sr. Partner, Env. Practice, Venable LLP)

Randy Lutz (Past chief AG, MDE; Principal, Chair of Environmental Sect. of the md. State Bar Assoc and the Northeast Hazardous Waste Coordinating Committee, Principal in Md. Law Firm of Hodes, Ulman,Pessin & Katz, P.A.)   

Tony Marchione (Ret. Superintendent of Balt. Co. Public Schools, ret. Balt.Co.Admin. Officer)

Ed McMahon (Sr Fellow, Urban Land Institute; prior The Conservation Fund)

Shelley Miller (Former State park naturalist; Pres Western Md Adventures)

Pat Noonan (Chair Emeritus, The Conservation Fund)

Margaret Palmer (Director UMCES, Chesapeake Biological Lab)

George Perdikakis (Past President Dir., Balt.Co. DEPRM; Sr.VP, KCI Technologies; CEO,MES; Baltimore City Com.of Transportation)

Ford Rowan (Former NBC News Correspondent consultant, Attorney, currently chairs National Defense University in Wash. D.C)

Jacqueline Sales (President / owner Hazmed; Environmental Engineer, EPA)

Eric Schaeffer (Dir. of Enforcemental Integrity Project; former Dir.of office of Regulatory Enforcement EPA)

Eric Schwaab (DNR; currently Int’l Assoc of F/W Agencies)

Cindy Schwartz (Executive Director, MD LCV)

Rena Steinzor (Research Prof. and co-director UMD Environmental Law Clinic; Founder, Center for Progressive Reform; Secondary appointment of UMD Medical School)

Dave Sutherland (Past VP for Acquisition, TCF; President USLA )

Karen White (Past National Political Dir, Emily's list; past National campaign director, DNC; past Deputy Sec, DNR)

IMPORTANT MATERIALS

Go to Subcommittee Reports

Workgroup Guidelines (PDF)

Workgroup Timeline (PDF)

Revised Report Template (Word file)

Executive Summary Template (Word file)

List of Annapolis Area Meeting Spaces (PDF)

Conference Line Information (PDF)

MDE point of contact for setting up interviews is
Stephen L. Pattison, Assistant Secretary for Policy, Community Relations & Outreach
Phone:  410-537-3084; fax: 410-537-3888; e-mail: spattison@mde.state.md.us

DNR point of contact for setting up interviews is
Kristen Saunders, phone: 410-260-8106; fax: 410-353-3111
e -mail: ksaunders@dnr.state.md.us

COORDINATING SUBCOMMITTEE

Don Boesch (President UMd Center for Environmental Science) Co-Chair

Torrey Brown (Past Sec DNR; on many environmental Boards; consultant) Co-Chair

Verna Harrison (Past Asst Sec DNR; currently Ex Dir, Keith Campbell Foundation)

David Carroll (Secretary, Baltimore County Dept of Environment)

David O’Neill (Ex Dir, Chesapeake Bay Trust)

Tom Horton (Bay writer, reporter, author)

Charlie Stek (Past Senator Sarbanes’ staff; current Sen. Cardins’ Staff )

Bernie Fowler (Former Senator and environmental advocate; Chair of Patuxent River Com.)

Frank Heintz (Former: member House of Delegates , PSC chair, BGE President and CEO)

Randy Lutz (Past chief AG, MDE; private practice attorney)

Kim Coble (Director Md Office, CBF )

Cindy Schwartz (Executive Director, MD LCV) - liaison to Communication/Outreach

Chuck Fox (EPA Dir of Water; Asst Sec MDE, Sec DNR; VP CBF, currently Pew Charitable Trusts)

Tom Haller (Land use Attorney; Partner, Gibbs & Haller)

AIR SUBCOMMITTEE

   Includes Global Warming and Energy issues, to be coordinated with other Trans Team

Eric Schaeffer (Dir. of Enforcemental Integrity Project; former Dir.of office of Regulatory Enforcement EPA) Co-Chair

Rena Steinzor (Research Prof. and co-director UMD Environmental Law Clinic; Founder, Center for Progressive Reform; Secondary appointment of UMD Medical School) Co-Chair

Fred Hoover (Former Director of Maryland Energy Administration; Attorney)

Brad Heavner (Executive Director Environment Maryland)

Erin Fitzsimmons (Chesapeake Regional Director, Waterkeeper Alliance ; Attorney)

Lynn Goldman (Johns Hopkins Public Health School )

Brenda Afzel (Md. Nurses Association; Dir. of Health Programs UMD School of Nursing)

Dick D’Amato (Consultant, Former Delegate, Maryland General Assembly)

Bob Perciasepe (Past Sec MDE; current EPA Assist. Admin. For both office of Air/Radiation and office of water, CEO of National Audubon)

Tony Janetos (Director Joint Global Change Research Institute; Pacific NW Nat’l Lab)

Ruth Ann Norton (Exec.Dir. Coalition to end Childhood Lead Poisoning)

Michael Braverman (Deputy Comm. For Code Enforcement-Housing Authority Balt City )

Arthur Wiley Ray (President-Wiley Environmental Strategies, Past Md. Cabinet Secretary )

Judi Greenwald (Dir.of Solutions-Pew Ctr.on Global Climate Change)

Tom Snyder

Marc Norman (Citizen Activist, Director of REGION)

 

COMMUNICATION/OUTREACH/ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION SUBCOMMITTEE

Ford Rowan (Former NBC News Correspondent consultant, Attorney, currently chairs National Defense University in Wash. D.C)  Co-Chair

Tony Marchione (Ret. Superintendent of Balt. Co. Public Schools, ret. Balt.Co.Admin. Officer) Co-Chair

Steve Barry (Dir, AA County Outdoor Ed Program AACPS– Arlington Echo)

Vicki Volk (Chesapeake Bay Field Lab, Envir. Edu. Facility St. Mary’s County)

Michele Speakes (Director of Institutional Advancement, Irvine Nature Center )

Susan O'Brien (Private consultant; past DNR & CBF Communications office )

Judy Sorum Brown (Leadership professor, School of Public Policy, UMD )

Scott Raymond (Living Classroom Foundation )

Matt Mullen (Dir. of Operation, CBF )

John Hutchinson (Retired Principal; CBF's Bay Schools participant )

Patty Larson (Former O'Malley field org; former Prog Dir, Environmental Support Center ;     former WWF)

Monica Johnson (WSSC )

George Chmael (Partner Ecologies, Pas CBF)

Melanie Parker (Teacher Specialist, Arlington Echo)

Christoper Conner (Dir. of Communication and Marketing, UMCES)

Regina Rochez (Consultant)

 

FINANCE, BUDGET AND BAYSTAT SUBCOMMITTEE

Michael Curley (EPA Independent Environmental Finance Advisory Board; Past UMD Envir.Fin.Ctr.) Co-Chair

Eric Christensen (Johns Hopkins Univ. Budget Office, former Budget official State of Md ) - Co-Chair

Terry Harris (Clean up Coalition)*

Will Baker (Pres, CBF)

Stuart Clarke (Ex Director, Town Creek Foundation)

Connie Musgrove (Past EPA; past DNR; currently UMD)

Bill Dennison (UMd, CES)

Nikki Tinsley (Retired EPA Inspector General)

Jack Greer (Past UMd Finance Center ; Md SeaGrant)

Dan Nees (UMd Finance Center)

Rob Wieland (Choptank Trib team chair; Economist, Consultant E Street)

Jeffrey Leonard (Pres. & CEO of Globle Enviroment Fund)

Charles M. Rhodes Jr. (Retired NR Police Captain, Current Church Hill Town Comm.)

Richard D. Norling (VP Deer Creek Watershed Assoc., Past Pres. Friends of Harford Inc)

Richard Rynd (Pres. Rynd. Enterprises, former legislator)

Ian D. MacFarlane (EA Engineering Science and Technology)

Kim Coble (Maryland Director, Chesapeake Bay Foundation)

John Boland (Prof Emeritus, Dept.of Geography Envir.Engineering Johns Hopkins Univ)

LAND PRESERVATION/STATE LAND SUBCOMMITTEE

    Includes Growth implications, to be coordinated with Transition Planning Committee

Pat Noonan (Chair Emeritus, The Conservation Fund) Co-Chair

Ed McMahon (Sr Fellow, Urban Land Institute; prior The Conservation Fund) Co-Chair

Tom Ross (Md Rec & Parks Assoc)

Grant DeHart (Past Dir, Program Open Space, DNR; consultant )*

Neil Fitzpatrick (Md-DC Audubon Naturalist Society)

Nick Dilks (Sustainable Land Fund, Land Conserv. and Mitigation Consult., past TCF)

Mereith Lathbury (E. Shore Land Conservancy, past Potomac Conservancy; Attorney)

Jacqueline Carrera (Parks and People Foundation)

Tim Casey (Pres , Md State Forest and Parks)

Tom Donlin (AA Co. Dept. of Parks & Rec)

Marcia Verploogen-Lewis (Partners for Open Space)

Bill Crouch (The Conservation Fund)

Eric Swanson (World Wildlife Fund)

LIVING RESOURCES MANAGEMENT SUBCOMMITTEE

Eric Schwaab (DNR; currently Int’l Assoc of F/W Agencies) Co-Chair

Margo Burnham (Director of Conservation Programs, TNC ) Co-Chair

Ed Dunn (Chair, Emeritus, Balt. Community Fdn.;past chair, Johns Hopkins Medicine;Johns Hopkins Hospital & Johns Hopkins Health Sys.)

Sherm Baynard (Coastal Conservation Association)

Bill Windley (Md Sportfish Alliance)

Larry Simns (Pres , Md Watermen's Assoc)

Ed O'Brien (President, Md Charter Boat Assoc)

Bill Goldsborough (CBF Scientist)

Dave Blazer (Exec.Dir. Md Coastal Bay Program; past DNR Fisheries Dir)

Raymond Morgan ll (UM Ctr. For Environmental Science Appalachian Lab)

Paul Massicott (Past DNR; consultant)

Mark Bryer (Director, Chesapeake Bay Initiative, TNC)

Wendy Donahoo (Maryland Sportsmens Association)

Jeff Plummer (President of the Maryland Waterfowlers Association)

Tom Franklin (Conservation Dir. Izaak Walton League of America ; Chairman Md Wildlife Diversity Committee; VP, The Wildlife Society)

Kevin Dodge (Dir., Nat Res. and Wildlife Technology Program, Garrett College)

Marquerite Whilden (Founder/codirector Terripin Institute, Ret. State Gov of Nat. Res)

Charles K. Hutchinson (President, TME Inc .)

Robert Plunkett (1st VP Maryland Sportsman Association; VP for Southern Md.)

Kirk Rodgers (Maryland Forests Association)

NATURAL RESOURCES ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING SUBCOMMITTEE

    Includes Growth implications to be coordinated with Transition Planning Committee; Critical

    Areas Commission; forest protection; ecosystem management approach

David Burke (Past Wetlands Administrator, Developed DNR Non Tidal Wetlands and Green Print Projects Burke Environmental Associates current consultant) Co-Chair

Margaret Palmer (Director UMCES, Chesapeake Biological Lab) Co-Chair

Bob Gallagher (West/Rhode Riverkeeper, Attorney)

William Dodd (Koch Homes)

Derrick Berlage (Former Montgomery Co. Planning Board Chair)

Harriet Tregoning (Smart Growth Leadership Institute, former Md. Office of Smart Growth)

Ira Feldman (Greentrack Strategies)

Steve Bunker (Md Director, The Nature Conservancy)

Karen McJunkin (Elm Street Development)

Gerry Winegrad (Former Senator, now adjunct Professor)

Sarah Taylor-Rogers (Past Critical Areas Ex Dir; Sec DNR; current Ass Dir. Ctr. For Agro-Ecol)

Stuart Freudberg (Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments)

Tom Liebel (Marks Thomas Architects)

Dr.Robert Gardner (UMCES, Appalachian Lab)

Paul Galligan (Former Mayor, now Adjunct Professor)

Heather Lane (UMCES)

Don Outen (Baltimore Co., Dept. of Environmental Protection and Resource Magmt)

Robert Rosenbaum

Harry Hughes (Center for Agro-Ecology, Inc.)

RESOURCE-BASED INDUSTRIES SUBCOMMITTEE

Dave Sutherland (Past VP for Acquisition, TCF; President USLA ) Co-Chair

Shelley Miller (Former State park naturalist; Pres Western Md Adventures) Co-Chair

Larry Walton (Past Weyerhaeuser ; currently forestry consultant)

Debra Smith (Sarles Boat Yard)

Chris Holmes (Chair, Md Forestry Assoc)

Lee Baihly (Owner, River & Trail Outfitter)

Steve Gordon (Gordon's Shellfish)

Tom Grasso (Former CBF; WWF)

Patty Larson

Chris Heald

Jonathan Stein

Doug Carroll

WASTE MANAGEMENT SUBCOMMITTEE

Jacqueline Sales (President / owner Hazmed; Environmental Engineer, EPA) Co-Chair

George Perdikakis (Past President Dir., Balt.Co. DEPRM; Sr.VP, KCI Technologies; CEO,MES; Baltimore City Com.of Transportation) Co-Chair

Sam Himmelrich Jr (Developer; Curtis Bay Energy Medical Waste Incinerator )

Bob Miller (Past MES, AA Cty )*

Ken Bennix (Days Cove Reclamation; former chair, Oyster Recovery Partnership)

Bridgid Kenney (Environmental attorney, Veneble, Chair of Alliance of the Chesapeake )

Joe Lewandowski (Environmental engineer, ERM Consulting )

Tom Koch (Former Pres. & CEO Curtis Engine & Equip., Consultant )

Richard Collins (Dir.of Reg Affairs-Arcadis,former Dir.of MDE Waste Man Admin.)

Bob Schleigh (Baltimore Co. Dept. of Environmental Protection and Resouce Management)

Randy Lutz (Attorney ; Hodes, Ulman, Pessin & Katz, P.A.)

WATER SUBCOMMITTE

    Includes Agricultural issues, to be coordinated with Ag Transition Team

Tom Lingan (Sr. Partner, Env. Practice, Venable LLP) Co-Chair

Carla Joyner (Former Depty Gen Mgr, WSSC) Co-Chair

Jen Aisoa (Chesapeake Bay Foundation )

Walter Boynton (UMCES, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory )

Jim Gracie (Brightwater, Inc., TU, Consultant )

Mike Mallinoff (Director, Neighborhoods & Env. Programs City of Annapolis )

Theresa Pierno (Past DNR, CBF VP, current VP Reg. Operations NPCA )

Tom Simpson (UMd, Chesapeake Bay Program)

Tim Searchinger (Director Center for Conservation Incentives Env.Defense)*

Katie Maloney (Executive VP Md. State Builders Assoc .)

Terry Harris (Clean up Coalition, Attorney)*

Barbara Samorajczyk (Former Anne Arundel County Council )

Dave Tomlinson (Chief Environmental Counsel Constellation Energy )

Bruce Gilmore (Past DNR mgr. attorney; CBF Storm water consultant)

Kincey Potter (President South River Federation )

David Gildea (Gildea and Schmidt, LLC )

C. Victoria Woodward (Attorney )

AT-LARGE MEMBERS

Karen White (Past National Political Dir, Emily's list; past National campaign director, DNC; past Deputy Sec, DNR)

Verna Harrison (Past Asst Sec DNR; currently Ex Dir, Keith Campbell Foundation)

Roy Hoagland (VP,Science and Policy CBF)

Chuck Fox (EPA Dir of Water; Asst Sec MDE, Sec DNR; VP CBF, currently Pew Charitable Trusts and chair of Md LCV Board)

Cindy Schwartz (Executive Director, MD LCV)

Frank Heintz (Former: member House of Delegates, PSC chair, BGE President and CEO )

Randy Lutz (Past chief AG, MDE; Principal, Chair of Environmental Sect. of the md. State Bar Assoc and the Northeast Hazardous Waste Coordinating Committee, Principal in Md. Law Firm of Hodes, Ulman,Pessin & Katz, P.A.)   

Tom Haller (Land use Attorney, Partner, Gibbs & Haller)