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Williams Ruckelshaus Honored
And Celebrating 35 Years of the EPA

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Lecture

Panel discussion

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April 19, 2006
Wells-Metz Theatre
275 North Jordan
Indiana University, Bloomington

1 p.m. Keynote Speaker
William Ruckelshaus
First and fifth administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

Keynote address: “Environmental Protection in the Face of Population and Economic Growth”

2:15 p.m. Symposium
“Critical Issues in Environmental Policy”
Symposium participants:

Bernard Goldstein, Professor and former Dean
University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health

Marcus Peacock, Deputy Administrator
Environmental Protection Agency

Paul Portney, Dean
Eller College of Management
Former President
Resources for the Future

Moderated by
A. James Barnes, former Dean
The School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Former Deputy Administrator
Environmental Protection Agency


Tribute to William Ruckelshaus

Christine Vujovich, Vice President, Marketing and Environmental Policy, Cummins
Read Ms. Vujovich’s remarks here.

Jim Rogers, CEO, Duke Energy
Read Mr. Roger’s remarks here.

This event is free and open to the public


William Ruckelshaus served as the first head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, starting in 1970. He served in that position for three years before becoming Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1973 and then Deputy Attorney General that same year. He eventually resigned as part of the so-called “Saturday Night Massacre” of the Nixon administration.

Ruckelshaus returned to Washington in 1983 to head the EPA again, this time under President Ronald Reagan, before retiring in 1985. Ruckelshaus was appointed to the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy by President George W. Bush. The commission was created as part of the Oceans Act of 2000.

Ruckelshaus is a native of Indianapolis, Ind. He was the Deputy State Attorney General for Indiana, served as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives, and unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 1968 against former Sen. Birch Bayh, father of Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN). Ruckelhaus presently serves on the board for Cummins Inc., a company based in Columbus, Ind. He also is a board member Weyershaeuser Co. and Nordstrom.

Marcus C. Peacock has served as the Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency since August 2005. He arrived at the EPA after working as the Associate Director for Natural Resources, Energy, and Science at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Peacock was also involved in environmental issues on Capitol Hill within the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. He served as a line supervisor and an industrial engineer for the printing company R.R. Donnelley & Sons in Los Angeles, Calif., before entering public service.

Dr. Bernard Goldstein is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. He was dean of that school from 2000 to 2005 after serving as the founding dean of the School of Public Health at Rutgers University. He also served as an EPA Assistant Administrator for Research and Development from 1983 to 1985. Dr. Goldstein continues to be involved with environmental health and public policy, serving as vice president of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment; a consultant to the World Health Organization and to the United Nations Environmental Program; and a member of the executive committee of the Association of Schools of Public Health.

Paul Portney is the dean of the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Before arriving there, he served as the president of Resources for the Future from 1995 to 2005. He joined the RFF in 1972, headed two of its research divisions, and served as vice president of the organization beginning in 1989. RFF is a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization that conducts independent research on environmental, energy, and natural resource issues. It was founded in 1952 with headquarters in Washington, D.C.

A. James Barnes is a professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and an adjunct professor at the IU School of Law. He is also a former dean of SPEA. Barnes was appointed deputy administrator of the EPA from 1985 to 1988 by President Ronald Reagan. The move was a return to the agency for him after previously serving as assistant to Ruckelshaus from 1970 to 1973. Barnes also was a member of general counsel for the EPA as well as the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He began his federal service in 1969 at the Department of Justice where he was a trial attorney and special assistant to the head of the Civil Division.