INTERVIEW WITH STEPHEN A. OWENS, FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (ADEQ) 2003-2009

On April 1, 2009, President Obama nominated Steve Owens to The USEPA as the Assistant Administrator for the Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances. Steve Owens served as Director of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality from January 2003 and until January 2009. Owens served...

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Published in:Perspectives in public affairs 2009-04, Vol.6, p.95-101
Main Author: Izaguirre, Ulrico C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Administrators
Advisory Committees
Alternative energy sources
Arizona
Climate change
Commissions
Drinking water
Emissions
Energy consumption
Energy resources
Environmental health
Environmental impact
Environmental management
Environmental policy
Environmental protection
Environmental quality
Government agencies
Governors
Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gases
Groundwater
Hazardous wastes
Honor
International Cooperation
Leadership
Legislative Bodies
Legislators
Owens, Stephen A
Pesticides
Presidents
Public officials
Renewable resources
Solar energy
States
Surface water
Surveillance
United States
Water quality
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Summary:On April 1, 2009, President Obama nominated Steve Owens to The USEPA as the Assistant Administrator for the Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances. Steve Owens served as Director of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality from January 2003 and until January 2009. Owens served as counsel to the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology. During 1985-88, he was chief counsel and later state director for then U.S. Senator Al Gore. From 1999-2002 Owens served as a member of the Joint Public Advisory Committee of the North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation. As ADEQ Director, Owens chaired Arizona's Climate Change Advisory Group, served as co-chair of the Western Climate Initiative and was Secretary of The Climate Registry. In September 2008, Owens was elected President of the Environmental Council of the States, the national state environmental agency directors association, serving until he left ADEQ. Steve graduated with honors in 1981 from Vanderbilt Law School. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:1948-1764
1948-1772