Obama Taps Baykeeper Board Member for Top Environmental Post

Nancy Sutley, a member of San Francisco Baykeeper's Board of Directors, has been selected as the new Chief of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). The CEQ was established to limit the environmental harm of government activities, including infrastructure work like road-building, and the Chief is a primary advisor to the President on environmental policy matters. Obama's CEQ Chief is expected to play a key role in incorporating environmental improvements into economic stimulus plans and in reversing harmful policies established under the recent Bush administration. 

Nancy  Sutley has been a member of the Baykeeper Board since 2005. As Chair of the Board’s program committee, Nancy has made a lasting impact on our efforts to protect the Bay from pollution.

Nancy currently serves as Deputy Mayor for Energy and Environment for the City of Los Angeles, California. Nancy previously served on the State Water Board, which oversees enforcement of the Clean Water Act in California. Under Governor Gray Davis, Nancy served as Energy Advisor and Deputy Secretary for Policy at the state’s Environmental Protection Agency. During President Clinton’s administration, Nancy was Senior Policy Advisor for the U.S. EPA Region 9 in San Francisco and a Special Assistant to the Administrator at the EPA headquarters in Washington, DC.

Baykeeper is thrilled to know that one of our own will be helping make the environmental change our country needs.

Photo by Ariel Hauter, AP