2025733 - Environmental Protection Network – Purpose, Goals, and Actions

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

3:30pm – 5:30pm ET

Location: 306A

Panel Chair(s)

SM

Stan Meiburg

Former Acting Deputy Administrator, U.S. EPA; Executive Director, Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability, Wake Forest University

Panel Co-Chair(s)

JO

Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta

Former Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for Science, Office of Research and Development, U.S. EPA (Retired); Environmental Protection Network, Board Member

Panelist(s)

Janet McCabe, AB Harvard College; JD Harvard Law School (she/her/hers)

Former Deputy Administrator, U.S. EPA; Distinguished Scholar, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indiana
H. Christopher Frey, PhD (he/him/his)

Glenn E. Futrell Distinguished University Professor
North Carolina State University, North Carolina
SM

Stan Meiburg

Former Acting Deputy Administrator, U.S. EPA; Executive Director, Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability, Wake Forest University
JO

Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta

Former Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for Science, Office of Research and Development, U.S. EPA (Retired); Environmental Protection Network, Board Member

The Environmental Protection Network (EPN) was founded in January 2017 and now has over 650 EPA alumni volunteering their time to protect the integrity of the EPA, human health, and the environment, and to serve as a trusted resource, answering calls for objective analysis, scientific rigor, and a vision for a transformed 21st-century EPA. EPN harnesses the expertise of former EPA career staff and confirmation-level appointees from Democratic and Republican administrations to provide the unique perspective of former regulators with decades of historical knowledge and subject matter expertise. EPN is focused on building and defending the capacity of environmental agencies and the communities they serve to address the most urgent health and environmental crises. EPN works to ensure that EPA advances policies, budgets, and institutional changes to address environmental injustices, climate impacts, and other pressing public health needs. This panel will discuss the purpose, goals, and current activities of the EPN.