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 lead on the Justice40 initiative and the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council.
Dr. Fine joined EPA after a 15-year career at the South Coast Air Quality Management District in Southern California where he most recently served as the Deputy Executive Officer leading the Planning, Rule Development & Area Sources Division. He oversaw all activities of the Division, including development of State Implementation Plans and Air Quality Management Plans, strategies and regulations for air pollution control, meteorology and forecasting, air quality evaluation, air toxics risk assessment, emissions inventories, socioeconomic analyses, transportation programs, and enforcement for area sources. Prior to this role, Dr. Fine’s previous responsibilities at South Coast AQMD included oversight of ambient air monitoring, laboratory services, quality assurance, and source testing. 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. Before joining the South Coast AQMD, Dr. Fine was a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles where he taught courses and conducted extensive research on particulate pollution, air monitoring technologies, and exposure assessment. He has over 50 peer-reviewed scientific publications to date. 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 the University of California, Berkeley.
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