Andrew Kenefick, Program Co-Chair, is Senior Legal Counsel with Waste
Management, Inc. where he manages environmental and regulatory compliance
and litigation in the nine western states. His practice covers virtually all aspects of
environmental law, including solid and hazardous waste compliance and
permitting under RCRA, CERCLA and state site cleanup, Clean Water Act, Clean
Air Act, and the Endangered Species Act. Mr. Kenefick joined Waste Management
4 years ago after 12 years of environmental practice at Heller Ehrman White
& McAuliffe.
Marlys S. Palumbo, Program Co-Chair, a member at Van Ness Feldman, focuses
her practice on matters arising under state and federal environmental statutes.
Prior to joining Van Ness, she served as the Senior Vice President for Law with
Philip Services Corporation, where she was responsible for managing and
directing environmental legal matters, negotiating with regulatory agencies, and
overseeing corporate compliance.
Shirli Axelrod is a Senior Environmental Analyst for Seattle Public Utilities,
where she manages waste prevention planning and deals with problem wastes.
She has over 15 years of experience with City departments, in hazardous and solid
waste management. Ms. Axelrod has a law degree from Northeastern University.
Morris D. Azose is a chemical engineer with over 20 years of experience in the
environmental field. He has worked as a regulator, process engineer, R&D
Engineer, and environmental consultant. He currently is Vice President of
Regulatory Affairs for the Industrial Services Group of Philip Services Corporation,
a waste management and industrial services company, where he is responsible
for environmental compliance and management of PSC’s on-site and off-site
liabilities.
Rodney L. Brown, Jr. is a partner with Brown Reavis & Manning PLLC. Mr.
Brown has worked on RCRA issues for many years, advising industrial clients
about compliance with RCRA’s waste management and disposal regulations. He
also represents companies in RCRA permitting and corrective action projects.
Frank Hammond is a partner in the law firm of Cable Huston Benedict
Haagensen & Lloyd LLP in Portland, Oregon where he represents clients in the
areas of land use law, solid waste law, and appellate litigation.
Chipper Hervieux is an Environmental Specialist with the Washington State
Department of Ecology. She has worked in the Hazardous Waste and Toxics
Reduction Program for the past 14 years. Her primarily areas of responsibility are
keeping the Dangerous Waste Regulations up to date, working with EPA to assure
consistency between the federal and state hazardous waste programs, and
developing policies related to hazardous waste management.
Sego Jackson is a Principal Planner with Snohomish County and has represented
the interests of local governments as one of 15 government negotiators in the
National Electronic Product Stewardship Initiative. He has also been instrumental
in developing local, state and national policies, pilots and programs related to
product stewardship and electronic products.
Nanci Klinger was an environmental consultant and Regional Compliance
Coordinator for CH2M HILL and a private consultant with BPA’s Office of
Environment, Fish and Wildlife prior to joining Davis Wright Tremaine LLP’s
Environmental Practice Group in Portland, OR.
Joshua M. Lipsky is a partner with Brown Reavis & Manning PLLC. Mr. Lipsky advises industrial clients about compliance with RCRA’s waste management and
disposal regulations. His practice also includes hazardous waste cleanup,
brownfields redevelopment and Clean Water Act permitting and compliance
matters.
Polly L. McNeill is a partner at the Summit Law Group where her practice focuses
on the areas of permits and administrative law, particularly related to land use and
SEPA, and hazardous and solid waste matters. Her practice ranges from general
land use permitting matters for commercial and industrial facilities, to specific
land use issues related to recycling, solid waste and hazardous waste activities.
Thomas A. Newlon is a principal in Stoel Rives, LLP’s Environmental Practice
Group. Previously he served 10 years as senior counsel for the Port of Seattle. His
expertise includes issues related to contaminated sediments, aquatic cleanup and
acquisition and redevelopment of brownsfields properties. He has had significant
involvement in regulatory reform efforts involving state programs in hazardous
waste management, contaminated site cleanups, ESA-related permitting issues
and potential changes to the federal Superfund program.
Wayne Rifer is Principal of Rifer Environmental in Portland, Oregon where he
addresses integrated waste management, product stewardship and industrial
ecology. He founded and managed the Western Electronic Product Stewardship
Initiative (WEPSI), and was a driving force behind the National Electronic
Product Stewardship Initiative (NEPSI), both of which have been instrumental in
initiating discussions among various stakeholder groups including electronic
industries, government, recyclers, retailers and others regarding the management
of electronic products at their end-of-life.
Viccy Salazar is the Product Stewardship Program Manager for U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Region 10 where she manages electronic projects that
address product lifecycle from design to end-of-life. She is the national lead on
EPEAT (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool), the Federal
Electronics Challenge and WEPSI. She is also a member of the Northwest Product
Stewardship Council.
Jay Shepard is a Sustainability Strategist with the Washington State Department
of Ecology with expertise in Solid Waste, Shorelands Management and Water
Quality. He led the state’s first recycling rate survey and solid waste composition
studies, which have helped bring recycling into the mainstream of waste
management. He is a charter member of the National Product Stewardship
Institute’s Steering Council, participates in NEPSI and chairs the Association of
State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials Product Stewardship Task
Force.
Charles A. White has over 28 years of professional experience in environmental
engineering and pollution control in California. Currently, he is the Director of
Regulatory Affairs for the Western Area of Waste Management and he previously
held a variety of positions with the California State Water Resources Control
Board, Regional Water Quality Control Boards, and the Department of Health
Services.
Allen Wilson is a Senior Technologist with Intel Corporation’s Sustainable
Development Group and is the Manager of Intel’s End-of-Life Electronics
Program. Prior to this position, he was Intel’s Environmental, Health & Safety
(EHS) Manager at the Intel sites in Massachusetts and Puerto Rico. He has both a
BS and a MS degree in Industrial Engineering.
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