RICHMOND, Va. — The Environmental Protection Agency has named a new senior adviser to oversee the agency's massive restoration of the Chesapeake Bay.
Jeff Corbin, a former assistant secretary of natural resources in Virginia during the Kaine administration, was named to the post by EPA administrator Lisa Jackson in an announcement made public on Wednesday. He is currently a senior adviser to an EPA regional administrator.
In his new job, he will coordinate every aspect of the bay's cleanup, including working with the six states and District of Columbia within the 64,000-square-mile water-pollution-control project — the largest ever undertaken in the United States.
Corbin spent a decade with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation as a scientist and Virginia deputy director of the group, a leading advocate for the bay. He also worked as an environmental geologist and water quality specialist for the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission.
The fact that he's been a working scientist gives me hope. The fact that he took it to CBF worries me a little, because it suggests he's already made up his mind about what's right.
But we probably will...
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