2010 POWERFUL HISPANICS IN ENERGY
stu NANCY SUTLEY Chair
White House Council on Environmental Quality A Keen Interest in Energy
The main environmental policy advisor to the president, Nancy Sutley, has a dynamic background and has been working on energy-related issues for more than a decade. Before her appointment, Sutley was the deputy mayor for energy and environment for the city of Los Angeles. During her tenure, she helped write the city’s solar energy plan that proposes Los Angeles receive 10 percent of its energy from the sun by 2020. She was also instrumental in Los Angeles’ adoption of the first mandatory green-building standards of a major American city. The City Hall job was a post Sutley had risen to after serving on the board of directors for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the California State Water Resources Control Board from 2003- 2005. Previously, the Cornell University graduate with a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University advised former California Gov- ernor Gray Davis on energy issues, and focused on the management of state and federal regulations, legislative affairs, finances and press relations. Sutley, who was born in Argentina, was also a deputy secre- tary for policy and intergovernmental relations in the California EP, and during the Clinton administration served as an EPA senior policy advisor to a regional administrator and special assistant to the administrator in Washington, D.C. On July 21, 2010, she addressed 120 leaders in the commercial building industry about the role of Federal leadership at a White House Clean Energy Economy Forum.
stu INÉS R. TRIAY
Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management Office of Environmental Management Department of Energy
Keeping Us Safe From Nuclear Waste
Inés R. Triay’s career has been spent carrying out an assign- ment that most people would be terrified to do. She heads the government agency responsible for the cleanup of radioactive waste and facilities that housed Cold War nuclear weapon pro- duction and research activities. The job has an annual budget of more than $5.5 billion, employs more 30,000 federal and contractor employees, deals with “enough radioactive waste to completely fill the Louisiana Superdome,” and initially included 107 sites spread over 2 million acres in 35 states. Before her current post, Triay spent years learning about nuclear cleanup at sites across the country serving as principal deputy assistant secretary, chief operations officer, and deputy chief operations officer. She was a manager at the Department of Energy’s Carlsbad, New Mexico field office, and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. She also thinks that with proper collaboration between business, state, and local government agencies that contaminated facilities could be converted “into spaces for renewable energy that would promote economic interests.” A hallmark of working with the deadliest substances on earth is Triay’s commitment to safety. It “must remain our top priority: No schedule, milestone, or cost consideration is worth any injury to our workers or any adverse effect to the public or the environment,” she says. Triay, who was born in Cuba on the eve of the communist revolution, earned her bachelor’s degree in chemistry, magna cum laude, and her doctorate degree in physical chemistry from the University of Miami in Florida.
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