Principal Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
In the Office of Policy at EPA, Dr. Fine provides advice and leadership on a wide variety of cross-agency and inter-agency policy programs. These include environmental justice and equity, permitting policy, regulatory design and impacts analysis, sustainable community development, sector-based approaches, and voluntary standards. He represents EPA on a variety of interagency working groups, including serving as EPA’s Environmental Justice Officer as a member of the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council. Dr. Fine joined EPA after a 15-year career at the South Coast Air Quality Management District where he most recently served as the Deputy Executive Officer leading the Planning, Rule Development & Area Sources Division. Dr. Fine served on the California Air Resources Board’s legislatively mandated Research Screening Committee, and has also served on several EPA Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee expert panels. He received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in Environmental Science & Engineering, and his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering from UC Berkeley.
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
8:30am – 10:30am PT
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