Mr. Akers is Principal Engineer for CQ Inc. He has over 30 years of industrial and research experience and has authored or co-authored over 100 technical papers and reports. Mr. Akers is named on five patents including the E-Fuel patent, the technology discussed in his presentation at this meeting, and holds Master of Science Degrees in Geochemistry and Mineral Processing Engineering from West Virginia University.
Mr. Brewer is a Vice President and Office Director for the Kansas City office of SCS Engineers. Mr. Brewer has over 28 years of professional experience as a geologist in the environmental and petroleum industries. Mr. Brewer has performed and managed numerous site investigations, major remedial actions and property redevelopment at industrial, commercial, and governmental facilities throughout the U.S.
Mr. Brewer also serves as the Chairperson for the Environmental Excellence Business Network (EEBN), a Kansas City based organization of environmental professionals who are taking a market approach to environmental improvements and sustainable business practices. The EEBN provides opportunities for businesses to learn tools, techniques and strategies from each other to accomplish similar goals while addressing their environmental challenges.
Mr. Bryant is currently the Director of Business Development and Ash Management for Ameren Energy Fuels and Services. He is responsible for the selection and development of research projects and business opportunities which may contribute to the operational and/or financial benefit of Ameren and which can utilize Coal Combustion Products (CCP's). Typical projects include activities that primarily are close to the core business interests of Ameren, and secondarily utilize CCP's as part of the process. Involvement includes the technical evaluation; administrative support; economic evaluation; investment plan development and management during start up and operation. Responsibilities also include significant interaction with state and federal economic development; regulatory and technical agencies, and industry advocacy groups. Prior to that, he worked for Ameren as Senior Asset Management Executive and Supervisor Waste Management and Remediation.
From 1992-1997, Mr. Bryant served as Staff Project Engineer at the Central Illinois Public Service Company. He was responsible for the field administration, oversight and coordination of company supported remediation projects that primarily include manufactured gas plants and various oil spills. Other significant responsibilities include the administration and oversight of the coal combustion waste treatment and disposal program, the groundwater monitoring program, and hazardous or non-hazardous waste disposal. Directed the permit preparation for two coal combustion landfill projects and the closure of an existing 100+ acre stabilized scrubber sludge landfill.
Mr. Bryant holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geological Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla.
Jack Carson is presently employed as a sales representative for Lafarge North America in nontraditional fly ash sales. He has past experience as general manager for a local sand and gravel producer and as a project engineer and estimator for a local heavy and highway contractor. Jack holds a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Kansas State University and a master's degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is also licensed as a professional engineer in the state of Missouri.
Dr. Rufus L. Chaney works in the Animal Manure and By-Products Laboratory of the USDA-Agricultural Research Service at Beltsville, MD, where he conducts research on the fate, food-chain transfer, and potential effects of soil microelements. The research includes studies on 1) plant uptake of metals and translocation to edible plant tissues; considers plant-soil interactions in microelement phytoavailability; 2) speciation of metals in plants and bioavailability to animals; 3) development of hyperaccumulator crops to phytoextract and recycle metals in contaminated soils; 4) bioavailability of lead and other metals in soils, biosolids, and composts directly ingested by animals; 5) development of "Tailor-Made Composts and Biosolids" to remediate Pb, Zn, Cd, Ni and other element contaminated soils including urban gardens; and 6) potential methods to reduce food-chain transfer or toxicity of metals in these organic resources and potential regulatory approaches to protect food safety and soil fertility. Since beginning his career in 1969, Dr. Chaney has 389 papers and 207 published abstracts on these topics. He has cooperated with the US-Environmental Protection Agency, the US-Food and Drug Administration, the Office of Management and Budget, and many States in preparing advice and regulations for utilization of biosolids.
Joe has a M.S. in Environmental Health Engineering and has worked for KDHE for 30 years with over 25 years in solid waste. His duties include permits for: Transfer Stations, Household Hazardous Waste Facilities, Medical Waste Processors, Composting Facilities, other SW Processing Facilities, and Waste Tire Processors or Transporters. Other duties include the medical waste regulation, petroleum contaminated soil landfarms, and the beneficial use or land application of potential waste materials.
Warren has more than 20 years of research experience related to the biochemistry of nutrient cycling in soils. He has been involved in interdisciplinary studies related to the use of no-tillage for growing crops in Ohio and the biology and biochemistry of soils as impacted by a variety of factors, (e.g. tillage, soil disturbance, soil amendments). Since 1990, Warren has been heavily involved in studying the properties of FGD by-products and evaluating beneficial land application uses of these materials. He has served as Editor of the Journal of Environmental Quality and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of all publications of the Soil Science Society of America.
Warren holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL, a Master's degree in Soil Biochemistry from Iowa State University and a Ph.D. in Soil Biochemistry from Iowa State University. He grew up on a farm in North Dakota and has practical knowledge of soil and crop interactions. His recent research has focused on the potential needs of Ohio crops and soils.
Thomas P. Dunne is the Acting Assistant Administrator of the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) at the US Environmental Protection Agency.(USEPA)
Mr. Dunne was formerly the Associate Assistant Administrator for the same office. Prior to his current position, Mr. Dunne held several senior level positions at the agency managing environmental programs at the national policy and regional operations levels. Mr. Dunne has served as the Regional Administrator for EPA's Region X Office in the Northwest, and Associate Administrator for EPA's Office of Regional Operations and State/Local Relations.
Earlier in his career, he served for five years as the Administrator of the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration, advising the President on all Federal disaster relief and recovery operations in the United States. In addition, Mr. Dunne has held a number of other high-level senior management positions in the Department of Commerce, including Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce in the Economic Development Administration.
With over 30 years of experience in government and private sector management, he has served in a variety of high level positions, including Vice President in the Environmental Services Division of DynCorp, where he provided professional services to Federal Government agencies. He was also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Recycling Sciences International, Inc.
Dr. Kevin Gardner is a registered professional environmental engineer and the Davison Professor of Civil/Environmental Engineering at the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Gardner is the Director of the UNH Environmental Research Group and is associated with the UNH Recycled Materials Resource Center. Dr. Gardner's areas of research include leaching of byproduct materials and contaminant fate and transport.
Jennifer Griffith, Northeast Waste Management Officials Association
Jim Gulliford has been the Region 7 administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency since September 13, 2001. As regional administrator, he is the interface between EPA headquarters in Washington and the citizens of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. That means that while he represents EPA in the four-state region, he also represents the concerns of the region to EPA headquarters.
Jim had 25 years of professional experience administering environmental programs in the agricultural and mining areas before he was appointed regional administrator. He received a bachelor's degree in forestry management and a master's degree in forestry economics and marketing from Iowa State University. He worked at Iowa State University and Southern Illinois University in mine reclamation and environmental protection program areas until 1982, when he became director of Iowa's Department of Soil Conservation. Jim was named director of the Division of Soil Conservation when the Department of Soil Conservation merged into the Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship.
Fred Gustin manages coal combustion products for Kansas City Power & Light, and has over 20 years of experience in working to increase the utilization of coal ash and other industrial by-products.
Prior to joining KCP&L in 2002, he was Manager of Contracts & Permits in Minneapolis for the ash-marketing subsidiary of Lafarge Corporation at that time, Mineral Solutions. He has also worked for Wisconsin Electric Power Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and JTM Industries in Marietta, Georgia.
Fred has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and he is currently working on an MBA here in Kansas City at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the state of Wisconsin.
Mr. Hassett is a Senior Research Advisor at the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) of the University of North Dakota. He also serves as the Fuels Analyst for the State of North Dakota. He received his B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics from Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota, in 1966 and continued with graduate studies in Chemistry from 1970 to 1975.
Prior to his current position, he was Director of Applied Chemistry and Analytical Research at the EERC, he held chemist positions with Watkins Products in Winona, Minnesota, and, while in the military service, was stationed at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, D.C., where he engaged in neutron activation analysis and related gamma ray spectroscopy in the departments of radiochemistry and nuclear medicine.
Mr. Hassett's principal areas of interest and expertise include the application of analytical chemistry to address environmental issues associated with trace element occurrence, transport, and fate; coal combustion byproduct management; groundwater quality; and air quality. The most recent research focus has been on trace element transformations during coal conversion processes and interaction between groundwater and coal conversion solids as related to the leachability of trace elements. Additional areas of expertise include hydration reactions of coal conversion solid residues as well as organic synthesis, radiochemistry, x ray spectrometry, analytical chemistry, and vegetable oil diesel fuels. In 1985, Mr. Hassett presented his research on vegetable oil diesel fuels as a member of a People to People Biomass Utilization Delegation to the People's Republic of China and, in 1998, was an invited keynote speaker at the 15th Conference on Clay Mineralogy and Petrology held in Brno in the Czech Republic. He has laboratory experience with infrared spectroscopy, gas chromatography, neutron activation analysis, atomic spectroscopy (atomic absorption and inductively coupled argon plasma), thin-layer chromatography, ultraviolet and fluorescence analysis, x ray fluorescence spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, ion chromatography, laser spectroscopy, and capillary electrophoresis.
Mr. Hassett is a member of several professional organizations, including the Society of Applied Spectroscopy, the North Dakota Academy of Science, and Sigma Xi, and he is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemists. He has authored or coauthored over 200 publications and holds a patent entitled "Enhanced Ettringite Formation for the Treatment of Hazardous Liquid Wastes, U.S. Patent 5,547,588. He is presently involved in several research projects.
Lawrence M. Heim is a Senior Vice President in the Risk Consulting Practice of Marsh. In this capacity, he provides strategic environmental consulting services for a wide spectrum of Marsh clients. His current practice involves environmental risk assessment and management. This includes environmental program development, risk identification, liability mitigation programs and innovating insurance programs for climate change, New Source Review and products pollution risks. Mr. Heim has 19 years of environmental management experience in legal, consulting and Fortune 100 corporate settings. He has provided innovative solutions for permitting, regulatory compliance and business issues. He has led and performed many aspects of environmental management activities, including EHS performance measurement, cost accounting, economic valuation and product/branding strategy. Prior to joining Marsh, Mr. Heim served as the Environmental Audit Program Coordinator for Georgia-Pacific Corporation in Atlanta, GA for seven years. In this role, he participated in a redesign of the corporate environmental audit program and tools. In addition, he developed new initiatives of environmental management in the company, including: environmental performance indicators and reporting; application of corporate financial metrics to environmental activities; supply chain management issues; product stewardship; and environmental branding opportunities.
Roger Holtorf is currently the National Program Leader for the Sector Strategies Division's Agribusiness Sector in the National Center for Environmental Innovation, Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation at EPA. He has spent the past several years working with major agribusiness trade associations and their members on this initiative to help industry improve environmental performance while easing the costs and burdens of regulation. He has more than 30 years of experience assessing the costs and impacts of various EPA regulations on food production and processing. He holds a BS in Natural Resources and MS in Agricultural Economics from the University of Nebraska.
Mr. Jansen oversees the utilization of coal combustion products (CCP) and landfills for We Energies. We Energies is the trade name of Wisconsin Electric Power Company and Wisconsin Gas Company, the principal utility subsidiaries of Wisconsin Energy Corporation. We Energies serves more than one million electric customers and nearly one million natural gas customers in Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Mr. Jansen has been with We Energies for 13 years. He supervises the CCP utilization program at We Energies and its landfills. We Energies utilizes over 98% its CCP produced at its six coal fueled power plants in Wisconsin and Michigan, whereas, the national average for utilities is a 38% utilization rate. Prior experience includes 10 years of environmental consulting, engineering, and project management for commercial construction and engineering firms in Wisconsin and Florida. He received a BS Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1984 and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Florida. Mr. Jansen holds a patent for inventing a process that converts paper mill sludge into glass aggregate and energy. He is a Certified Solid Waste Disposal Facility Manager in the State of Wisconsin. Mr. Jansen is currently the Chairman of ASTM C9.24 Supplementary Cementitious Materials Task Group for Emerging Materials and Technologies, and currently serving as Chairman of the American Coal Ash Association.
John "Mac" McDonnell has worked for Eagle Ottawa, in Grand Haven, MI, for 11 years. His current title is Manager Global Environmental Engineering, but he has worked in the water/wastewater/ environmental field for 23 years.
John resides in Muskegon, MI with his wife, Marti, and their two English Setters.
Mr. Maltby was hired by NCASI in 1980. He is currently responsible for solid waste, groundwater, global climate change issues, and regulatory issues. Maltby is also involved in landfill gas emissions research and federal regulatory surface impoundment activities. He is a member of the American Society for Testing and Materials, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Committee Member D21.07 as well as the National Ground Water Association, Dublin, Ohio.
Susan Mooney is an Environmental Scientist with the U.S. EPA Region 5. Region 5 encompasses the states of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. During her 18 years with the EPA, she has worked on a variety of solid waste management issues and projects. Her current responsibilities include facilitating beneficial use of industrial byproducts, responding to waste disposal issues in Indiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin, and investigating the use of composted materials as a best management practice for controlling erosion and run-off.
Susan holds a Bachelors' degree from Franklin and Marshall College and a Masters of Science in Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Elisabeth Olenbush is the President of EO Associates, Inc., a small consulting company focused on recycling market development. She also serves as the Executive Director of Foundry Industry Recycling Starts today (FIRST).
Olenbush stared her recycling career when she was hired as the Director of Marketing when the Steel Recycling Institute was created in 1989. In 1995, she was retained by the Wisconsin recycling Market Development Board to develop the statewide plan for high volume industrial byproducts, which in Wisconsin are defined as coal combustion products, pulp and paper residuals and foundry process residuals.
Olenbush has been active in local, state and national recycling organizations for more than 15 years. She continues to serve as a Board member of the Buy Recycled Alliance of New York. She resides in the beautiful Berkshires in Western Massachusetts. Olenbush is a graduate of Duke University and a passionate NCAA basketball fan.
Gary M. Pierzynski is a professor of soil and environmental chemistry in the Department of Agronomy at Kansas State University. He received his B.S. in crop and soil science (1982) and his M.S. in soil environmental chemistry (1985) from Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI. He earned his Ph.D. in soil chemistry (1989) from The Ohio State University, Columbus.
Dr. Pierzynski's research interests include trace element chemistry, remediation of trace element-contaminated soils, phosphorus bioavailability, water quality, risk assessment, and land application of by-products. He currently serves as editor of the Journal of Environmental Quality. Other professional activities include serving as soil and environmental division chair for the Soil Science Society of America; USDA-NRI panel manager for the Soils and Soil Biology Program; vice-chairperson for the Soil Remediation Subcommission of the International Union of Soil Science; co-chair of the USDA Chemistry and Bioavailability of Waste Constituents in Soils regional research committee; peer-reviewer for EPA risk assessment efforts; member and chair of the technical and organizing committees for the International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements Series; and technical advisor for citizen groups in the Tri-State Mining Region. He has given over 40 invited presentations.
Dr. Pierzynski teaches courses on environmental quality plant nutrient sources, soil and environmental chemistry, and advanced soil chemistry. Dr. Pierzynski is a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and the Soil Science Society of American, has received the Outstanding Teaching and Outstanding Research Awards from Gamma Sigma Delta, and has been twice named Faculty of the Semester and received the Outstanding Academic Advisor Award from the College of Agriculture at Kansas State University.
As Chief of the Division of Municipal and Residual Waste, Mr. Pounds directs the Municipal and Residual Waste Permitting Section, the Enforcement and Bonding Section, and the General Permits/Beneficial Use Section. He serves as department liaison with the EPA for the permitting of municipal and residual waste treatment, and storage and disposal facilities. He also directs the development of regulations dealing with the permitting of municipal and residual wastes and directs the development of design standards for the permitting of waste disposal facilities. He has 33 years of experience with the Department of Environmental Protection and two years with the Department of Health. Mr. Pounds directed the re-write of the Municipal Waste Sewage Sludge Regulations, the PA Hazardous Waste regulations, the Pennsylvania Residual Waste Regulations, and the Pennsylvania Municipal Waste Management regulations. He was also involved in developing manuals for the mushroom farm community and food processing industry. He holds a B.S. in agronomy from the Delaware Valley College of Science and Agriculture.
Ken Powell has worked for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment for over 11 years in the Solid Waste Processing Facilities Permits Unit. His main duties have been writing solid waste permits for composting facilities, solid waste processing facilities, solid waste transfer stations, and waste tire transporters and processors. He also helped write the waste tire and composting regulations.
In 1999 Ken's duties were expanded to include developing KDHE's portion of the Department of Animal Health's Foreign Animal Disease Emergency Plan. The KDHE portion includes a plan for emergency disposal of animal carcasses in the event of a Foreign Animal Disease occurring in Kansas.
KDHE's public information campaign, while not in his job description, is something he has a special interest in and works on whenever possible. These duties fit well into his background in agriculture and teaching. Ken now provides technical assistance on composting to the agricultural and solid waste groups in Kansas through three operator training schools and one conference each year.
He has a bachelors and masters degree in Agricultural Education from Kansas State University. Ken is currently working on a Masters in Public Health from Wichita State University.
Woody Raine is the Recycling Manager for the Texas Department of Transportation. In that position he promotes use of recycled materials in transportation, purchase of recycled-content products, and employee participation in recycling opportunities at TxDOT.
Over the last 22 years, he has worked in many facets of the recycling industry. Prior to joining TxDOT in 2002, he served as a specialist for recycling markets and community recycling at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and its predecessor agencies. Before joining the state, Woody supervised the curbside recycling program for the City of Austin, and was Operations Manager for Ecology Action, a non-profit recycling center in Austin. He co-founded and was the first president of the Recycling Coalition of Texas.
Woody's engineering career has also included employment at Reynolds Metals in Corpus Christi and Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas in Austin.
Matt Rasmussen is a 1984 graduate from the University Of Iowa School Of Business, with a degree in Marketing. Mr. Rasmussen is the Business Manager for Recycle Iowa, which is an office within the Iowa Department of Economic Development. Previous to working at the Iowa Department of Economic Development, Matt was in sales for a large national office products company, and has managed a family business. Matt is responsible for the administration of the Iowa Waste Exchange and has been a member of the Iowa Regulatory Assistance Team since October of 2003.
Ms. Ried, a hydrogeologist, has performed numerous geological, geochemical, and hydrogeological investigations in the Midwest. Ms. Ried combines her strong technical understanding of hydrogeology and contaminant fate and transport with knowledge of federal and state environmental regulations and transportation programs to develop effective hazardous substances/waste site investigations, site remediation, redevelopment, and water supply strategies for private sector and public sector clients. As a senior member of CH2M HILL's Energy, Environment and Systems Group, Ms. Ried manages projects and provides senior leadership for clients such as Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), one confidential former chemical distribution client, and two municipalities in Wisconsin.
Some of Ms. Ried's accomplishments include:
Co-manager of a multi-agency solution for the beneficial reuse of industrial fill material generated from an interchange reconstruction project for utilization at a brownfield redevelopment site, saving tax payers over 2 million dollars
Over 8 years experience implementing hazardous materials and real estate acquisition activities during development, design and construction of transportation projects
Part of a client partnership that received a state and national Engineering Excellence Award from ACEC
Sole consultant participating in state Aquifer Storage Recovery technical advisory group and rulemaking which resulted in statutory changes. The resulting knowledge and understanding provides clients with the ability to defer costly capital improvements
Ms. Ried is a professional geologist in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Indiana. Ms. Ried has a B.S. from Texas A&M University and a M.S. from Ohio State University.
Mr. Richardson was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1951. He graduated from Purdue University in 1973 with a B.S. in Chemistry and subsequently received a Master's in Business from Central Michigan University. Mr. Richardson began his career with the Ford Motor Co. immediately out of college in Paint Operations as a Process Engineer. In 1974, thanks to the Oil Embargo, he formulated two component urethane topcoats for Celanese Coatings as a Paint chemist. Upon return to Ford in 1975, Mr. Richardson continued his work in Paint Operations as a Paint Materials Specialist, Corrosion Engineer and Experimental Coatings Liaison Engineer.
In 1979, Mr. Richardson moved to St. Louis as the Paint Process Engineering Supervisor. From there, in 1982 he had a four-month assignment in Cologne, Germany studying Area Management preceding his assignment as Paint Process Supervisor, Lead Paint Superintendent, and Paint Manufacturing Engineering Manager at the Wixom Assembly Plant. In 1984, Mr. Richardson was assigned to Kansas City as Paint Area Manager and became the Commercial Operations Manager in 1987. In 1988, he returned to Vehicle Operations General Office as the Operations Planning Manager for the Contour/Mystique Program.
Mr. Richardson was promoted to Assistant Plant Manager in 1990 at the St. Louis Assembly Plant and in 1992 in the same position at the Louisville Assembly Plant. In 1994, Mr. Richardson returned to the St. Louis Assembly Plant as Plant Manager, based on his extensive knowledge of both the Explorer and Aerostar Products. In 1996, he became the Plant Manager at the Ontario Truck Plant for a short time, before becoming the Global Paint Engineering Manager in Vehicle Operations General Office in Dearborn. Mr. Richardson was responsible for Paint Materials, Process and Facilities for Ford worldwide, which included annual capital investment of $1 billion in new paint facilities. He is currently the Heritage Manager, responsible for developing Ford's 21st Century Sustainable Manufacturing Center Vision.
He is active in Ford Vehicle Operations Corporate Citizenship efforts with Boysville, Gleaner's Food Bank, and Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Walk for the Cure. Mr. Richardson enjoys golf and bowling as well as traveling. He supports Ford's recruiting efforts at Purdue University. He has been married 30 years to Charlotte, and they have a 20-year old daughter, Christina, who goes to Madonna University as well as a cat named Snickers.
Scott Sherman is the EPA Associate General Counsel for Solid Waste and Emergency Response. In this capacity, he serves as the senior EPA counselor for the nation's hazardous and solid waste management programs and cleanup initiatives, including Superfund, RCRA, land revitalization - brownfields, federal facilities, oil spills, USTs, and the emergency response program. As Associate General Counsel, Scott also manages the Solid Waste and Emergency Response division of the EPA Office of General Counsel.
Scott previously served as a Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Texas and as a senior legal and policy advisor to Texas state energy and environmental commissioners. He is a member of the adjunct faculty of Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches environmental law.
Scott received his B.A. with Highest Honors from the University of Texas and his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. He also holds an M.S. in Real Estate from the Berman Real Estate Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where his research focused on the cleanup and redevelopment of brownfield properties.
Jonathan Stokes, Jackson County Department of Public Works
Jonathan Stokes, P.E. is Director of the Public Works Department for Jackson County, MO. The Public Works Department operates three divisions. Engineering provides engineering design and construction management services for road and bridge replacement projects throughout the county. Engineering also provides engineering and support services to the County Urban Road System Program. Road & Bridge Maintenance maintains a safe and effective roadway system for motorists and is responsible for the Annual Road Construction Program. The Development Division is responsible for the health, safety and welfare of the general public and protection of the environment along with administration of the County Master Plan and the Unified Development Code. Additionally, the department is responsible for the operation and maintenance of Sewer Districts 94, 95, 98, 102 and 103.
Bill Thacker is a Senior Research Engineer with the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI), a non-profit technical organization that focuses on environmental topics of interest to the forest products industry. Bill's principal responsibilities at NCASI are to conduct research on environmental issues pertinent to the paper industry and provide requested information to paper companies on environmental matters. His research projects tend to address either the beneficial use of by-product solids or questions related to wastewater treatment and water quality. Bill worked with Paul Ruesch of U.S. EPA Region 5 and others to organize and host the first Industrial By-Products Beneficial Use Summit held in Chicago in August 2002. Prior experience includes 10 years holding environmental positions at two paper companies.
Bill is a member of the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI) and the Great Lakes By-products Management Association (GLBMA). He has served on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the National Center for Clean Industrial and Treatment Technologies (CenCITT), a research consortium at Michigan Technological University. Bill received a B.S. degree in Paper Technology from Miami University of Ohio and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
David Watson is the Alternative Fuels and Materials Manager at LaFarge North America. The last 12 of his 25 years in the cement industry has been with LaFarge. While there, he has done resource recovery work. He currently oversees five plants in the Mid-West with plant in Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Illinois, and just outside of Kansas City, MO.
David Wagger joined the Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP) in March 2004 to work on the Mid-Atlantic By-Product Synergy (BPS) Project. He currently manages the BPS Project and also contributes technical analysis to other projects, mainly in the areas of industrial energy consumption and air emissions.
Prior to joining CCAP, Mr. Wagger spent nine years at Signum Environmental, Inc. providing technical and expert-witness services to insurance companies and their counsel on issues involving chemical engineering, environmental science, and contaminant fate and transport. In the early 1990s as a Diplomacy Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he worked on policy and technical issues related to energy, climate change, and the stratospheric ozone layer with the U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of State, World Bank, and the pilot-phase Global Environmental Facility.
Mr. Wagger holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of California at Berkley and a Ph.D in chemical engineering, with a minor in political science, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Kelly Young has worked at Excel Pork, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cargill, Inc. (Beardstown, Illinois), since 1988 where she has held various positions within production. She is currently an environmental supervisor at Excel Pork, responsible for waste water laboratory and environmental affairs.
Prior to that, she work as their waste operator and was responsible for performing laboratory tests and assists in wastewater and environmental affairs.
Her continuing education includes: ACS Compost Seminar, IEPA Release Reporting Seminar, Certified Wastewater operator by the IEPA, Rivers Project Education, Certificate of completion from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville for correspondence course on Environmental Resources and various in-house training sessions.
