Meet the New Boss - Part Deux

Former Del. environmental secretary new head of Chesapeake Bay Program

Former Delaware environmental secretary Nicholas DiPasquale has been appointed director of the Chesapeake Bay Program, a federal-state agency formed to help restore and protect the bay.

DiPasquale left the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control in mid-2002, after nearly a decade with the agency and after serving as its top officer through some of the state's biggest environmental controversies, including a push to toughen pollution enforcement.

His administration also oversaw efforts to gain control of a troubled chemical plant and company that later collapsed into bankruptcy, becoming one of the region's most-costly federal Superfund cleanup sites...

DiPasquale, who had been serving as an environmental consultant and volunteer conservation group leader, takes the place of acting Director James Edward. He also worked as deputy secretary in the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, and as director of the Environmental Management Center for the Brandywine Conservancy in Chadds Ford, Pa.

A few months ago, I posted how EPA had just elevated a new Chesapeake Bay adviser.  Honestly, I can't see why we need both positions. The Bay Program hasn't accomplished that much since it was formed in 1983.  The Bay health, at best, has simply not gotten much worse since then.



But we probably will...