President and Executive Director, The Public Interest Network
Started on staff: 1979
B.S. Colorado State University, J.D. Harvard Law School
Doug is President and Executive Director of The Public Interest Network. As director of MASSPIRG starting in 1979, he conceived and helped organize the Fund for the Public Interest, U.S. PIRG, National Environmental Law Center, Green Century Capital Management, Green Corps and Environment America, among other groups. Doug ran the public interest careers program at the Harvard Law School from 1976-1986. He is a graduate of Colorado State University and the Harvard Law School.
A better world is always more possible when we work together. Here are 10 examples of the positive changes for the public and the planet that the organizations and staff of The Public Interest Network, along with our friends and allies, helped win.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, John Rumpler, Environment America’s clean water program director, joined EPA Administrator Michael Regan and our clean water allies for an event at Ohio’s Cuyahoga River.
After a third defeat in court, ExxonMobil may finally have to pay for a mess it made in Texas.
Following long-awaited good news of historic climate progress at the federal level, two states have also delivered noteworthy climate action.
The past month brought us two “great conjunctions.” One occurred up in the night sky, and the other, in Washington, D.C.
