A Jacobs executive, a college professor, a retired federal regulator and the mayor of town adjoining the government’s largest nuclear cleanup property are the four newest members of an advisory board to the Department of Energy’s $7.5-billion Office of Environmental Management, the agency said last week in a press release.
Newly-appointed members of the 17-member Environmental Management Advisory Board are Celeste Greene, Michael Shapiro, Julius “Jake” Washington and Brent Gerry. Each will serve a two-year term, which the agency can renew, on the panel charged with providing independent recommendations to DOE’s assistant secretary for environmental management on site cleanup and risk reduction.
Greene is a University of Virginia associate professor and program director of graduate certificates in public administration and leadership. She will publish a book later this year titled, “Environmental Justice and Resiliency in an Age of Uncertainty.”
Shapiro is a former deputy assistant administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Water, which oversees EPA’s Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act programs.
Washington is a senior executive at Jacobs on worldwide projects supporting the Navy and Marine Corps, DOE said in the release.
Gerry, is mayor of West Richland, Wash., which adjoins DOE’s Hanford Site and is also vice chair of the Energy Communities Alliance.
