1. Glenn Paulson, PhD, BCES, ScD (Hon)
PO Box 1541, Jackson Hole, WY 83001
Phone 307.690.3558 E-mail: gpinwy@wyoming.com
Summary: A forty-five year career in environmental science, technology,and policy in public, private, and academic
organizations, with emphasis on “all hazards” public and environmental health topics; the hazards, risks and
remediation of hazardous and radioactive materials and wastes in the environment; energy issues; and natural
resource management. Leader and manager of multi-disciplinary teams (as large as hundreds ofpeople and annual
budgets ofover $100 million) dealing with environmental and occupational hazards and threats; also Chief
Operating Officer of a School of Public Health, with an annual budget of over $100 million, and a capital budget
of $25 million for new environmental and public health laboratories.
Education: Ph.D., Environmental Sciences and Ecology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
B.A.in Chemistry (with Honors), Northwestern University, Evanston,IL
Achievements
and Accom-
plishments
(partial list):
Directly managed emergency response,site assessment and/orcleanup at over 100 Superfund sites and RCRA
facilities as well as spills or other releases of hazardous chemical and radioactive materials, in states from Vermont
to California. Served as On-Scene Coordinator for numerous sites and spills presenting imminent hazards. Overall,
these sites,facilities and spills contained the full gamut of environmental contaminants including heavy metals,
organic solvents,pesticides and herbicides, PCBs and dioxins, explosives, and radioactive isotopes.
Reviewed and critiqued cleanup plans for over 5,000 Superfund, RCRA and Brownfield sites and facilities in the
US and Canada for compliance with environmental requirements, technologies chosen,and cost-effectiveness of
both completed work and future cleanup and monitoring plans.
For both governmental and private sectororganizations, designed,implemented and managed training and medical
monitoring programs for workers responding to,stabilizing, and cleaning up chemical, radiological, and
clandestine drug lab (“meth”) sites and facilities; served as a Master Trainer for several organizations. This
included designing the training program cleaning up the anthrax-contaminated U.S. Senate office building.
Jointly with the State Police Commander, was in charge of the State of New Jersey’s response to the Three Mile
Island nuclear power plant accident.
Senior Consultant to the President’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future.
Designed and/orconducted major, multidisciplinary environmental science, technology and policy research
programs and studies for non-profit, university, and private sector organizations.
Served as Health and Safety Officer for three organizations, and Scientific Integrity Official for anotherone.
Designated by the National Institutes of Health as a Subject MatterExpert on chemical, biological, radiological
and nuclear weapons of mass destruction.
Served as chairman or member of study committees for the US Congress and the National Academy of Sciences
on the cleanup of the US nuclear weapons complex, managing used (“spent”)nuclear power plant fuel, the
Superfund program, groundwater contamination and cleanup, natural resource use,and other topics.
Served as the US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator’s Science Advisoron the exploration and
production of unconventionaloil and natural gas resources (“fracking”), the future of EPA’s laboratory system, the
proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska, and the scientific, engineering, and technical aspects of issues across all EPA
Program Offices (Air, Water, Toxic Chemicals, Hazardous Wastes,and Research and Development).
First Chairman of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Environmental Management Advisory Board and a
charter member of the US Secretary of Energy’s Advisory Board, with a high level (“Q”) security clearance.
Advisorto the US Departments of the Interior and Commerce and the National Institutes of Health as well as many
other federal, state and local government agencies, private companies and trade associations,labor organizations,
and non-governmental organizations on environmental and occupationalhealth, energy resource development and
energy conservation,and related issues.

2. Employment: Paulson and Cooper, Inc., Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 1992-2012 and 2015-present. Founder and Principal of an
environmental and energy consulting firm with clients in the US, Canada, Great Britain, and the European
Union. Provided leadership, management, and directly participated in most major projects. Company focus
areas are: hazardous and radioactive wastes,broadly defined; strategic and tactical advice on environmental and
energy issues; expert witness assignments; and technology evaluation.
Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, and Interim Senior Associate Dean, Milken
Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington,DC, 2015-2016.
Science Advisorto the Administrator, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Senior Science
Advisorfor EPA’s Office of Research and Development, Washington,DC, 2012-2015. Led and managed the
Office of the Science Advisor, which included the human subject research protection program and the Risk
Assessment Forum, among others.Chaired the agency-wide Science and Technology Policy Council, Scientific
Integrity Committee, and the ad hoc committee defining the future of EPA’s $480 million/year laboratory
system. Directly advised the Administrator and Deputy Administrator on these issues plus a wide variety of
others,including major environmental assessments,scientific and technical aspects of the exploration for and
production of unconventionalenergy resources (and, jointly with the US Departments of Energy and Interior,
defined research needs in this area), and the design of improvements in EPA’s Integrated Risk Information
System, among many othertopics. Co-chaired the White House Committee on Environment, Natural Resources
and Sustainability, based in the President’s Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health, the Rutgers -School of
Public Health, and Director, the New Jersey Center for Public Health Preparedness,New Brunswick, New
Jersey, 2002-2010. Responsibilities (partial list) included developing curricula for and teaching new graduate
level courses in public health preparedness,managing a CDC-funded state-wide center of excellence on
preparedness and homeland security, administering the School’s Office of Research and Sponsored Programs,
and, for the University, serving on the Council of Research Deans as well as its Institutional Review Board.
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and the IIT Research Institute,Chicago, Illinois, 1988-1992. Director, The
Center for Hazardous Waste Management, 1988-1990; Research Professor, 1988-1992. Directed technical and
policy research programs; guided commercialization of an innovative soil treatment technology.
Clean Sites, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia, 1984-1988. Vice President of the scientific and technical arm of the
organization; managed site assessment and remediation planning for multi-party Superfund sites.
National Audubon Society, New York, New York. 1979-1984. Vice President and Senior Vice President for
Science and Sanctuaries. Directed the ornithological, ecological and environmental policy research
departments, and managed the wildlife sanctuary system(2.5 million acres of land and water bodies in 23
states),including fund-raising responsibilities for operations and for the Society’s endowment fund.
State of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Trenton,New Jersey, 1974-1979. Assistant
Commissioner for Science. Co-authored the first major state Superfund bill; set up and managed the cleanup
program it created. Managed all departmental scientific and technical activities and related regulatory
programs; examples include evaluation of nuclear power plants and other isotope-using installations; coastal
zone siting of energy facilities; mapping of riparian lands; the New Jersey Geological Survey; and a state-wide
water supply master plan, among other duties.
Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, New York, 1971-1974. Staff Scientist and Director of the
Scientific Support Program. Undertook scientific analysis in support of litigation and legislation in the areas of
air pollution, water pollution, nuclear power and toxic chemicals in the environment. Developed the scientific
program (including fund-raising for it) and managed the work of all other staff scientists in offices in New York
City and Washington,DC.
Honors and
Awards (partial
list):
Board Certified Environmental Scientist; Honorary Doctor of Science degree, Long Island University; Elected
Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute of
Chemists; elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi and Phi Lambda Upsilon; formal commendations from two US
Presidents, one US Vice President, two US Cabinet Secretaries, three Administrators of the USEPA, and the
Governors of both New York and New Jersey.
July, 2016