Rob Verchick

Robert Reed Verchick is a U.S. legal scholar known for his studies and advocacy related to environmental law, climate change adaptation, and disaster law, a new field that he has helped organize and develop. He is the Wendall Gauthier-Michael St. Martin Eminent Scholars Chair in Environmental Law at Loyola University New Orleans and also a Senior Fellow at Tulane University. Verchick was the Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 2009 to 2010 in the Obama administration. He is president of the non-profit policy research organization the Center for Progressive Reform. Provided by Wikipedia