Vivian Garfein, member of the Salisbury Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Commission, and former Central Director of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection will interview Carol Browner.
Carol Browner has had a lifelong commitment to securing environmental and public health protections. She has worked in government, in the private sector and with nonprofits, serving two presidents, a governor and two senators.
In her role as Assistant to President Obama and Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy, Ms. Browner oversaw the coordination of environmental, energy, climate, transport, and related policy across the U.S. federal government. During her tenure, the White House secured the largest investment ever in clean energy and established the national clean car standards that included both new automobile fuel efficiency standards and the first ever climate pollution reductions for vehicles.
From 1993 through 2001, Ms. Browner served as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President Clinton. As Administrator, she adopted stringent air pollution standards for soot and smog; including for the first time, a fine particle clean air standard; spearheaded the reauthorization of the Safe Drinking Water Act as well as the Food Quality Protection Act. She was known for working with both environmentalists and industry to set scientific-based public health protections while providing businesses important flexibilities in how to meet those standards. She worked across the agency to ensure a focus on protecting the most vulnerable, particularly children.
From 1991 through 1993, Ms. Browner served as Secretary of Environmental Regulation in Florida, where she launched one of the largest ecological restoration projects ever attempted in the United States to restore the natural flow of water to the Everglades.
Presently Ms. Browner is a Senior Counsel at the law firm of Covington and Burlington LLP, helping clients navigate climate change policy. She also serves on the board of Bunge Limited, a multinational agribusiness corporation, where she chairs the Sustainability Committee. In addition, she is Chair of the Board of the League of Conservation Voters. Ms. Browner previously served as Senior Counselor at the Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategic advisory firm, and was a founding principal of The Albright Group. She splits her time between the Green Mountains of Vermont and Washington DC.