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Linda J. Fisher "is vice president and chief sustainability officer. She has responsibility for advancing <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/DuPont" title="DuPont">DuPont</a>'s progress in achieving sustainable growth; DuPont environmental and health programs; the company's product stewardship programs; and global regulatory affairs, and Government Affairs. She joined DuPont in June 2004.

"Prior to joining DuPont, Ms. Fisher has served in a number of key leadership positions in government and industry including: Deputy Administrator of <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/EPA" title="EPA" class="mw-redirect">EPA</a>; EPA Assistant Administrator - Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances; EPA Assistant Administrator - Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation; and Chief of Staff to the EPA Administrator. Fisher, an attorney, was also Vice President of Government Affairs for <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Monsanto" title="Monsanto">Monsanto</a> and was "Of Counsel" with the law firm, <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Latham_%26_Watkins" title="Latham & Watkins">Latham & Watkins</a>.

"Ms. Fisher received a law degree from Ohio State University, a Master's of Business Administration from George Washington University and a B.A. from Miami University. She is a member of the DuPont Health Advisory Board, the DuPont Biotechnology Advisory Panel and serves as liaison to the Environmental Policy Committee of the DuPont Board of Directors. Ms. Fisher serves on the Board of Directors of the <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Environmental_Law_Institute" title="Environmental Law Institute">Environmental Law Institute</a>, on the Board of Trustees of The <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/National_Parks_Foundation" title="National Parks Foundation" class="mw-redirect">National Parks Foundation</a>, on the Board of Directors of <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/RESOLVE" title="RESOLVE">RESOLVE</a>, and on the Board of Directors for <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Resources_for_the_Future" title="Resources for the Future">Resources for the Future</a>." <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Linda_J._Fisher#cite_note-0">[1]</a>

"Linda J. Fisher was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Aug. 4 to be Assistant Administrator for Pesticides and Toxic Substances of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

"EPA Administrator <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/William_K._Reilly" title="William K. Reilly">William K. Reilly</a> said, "Linda Fisher will do an outstanding job managing our pesticide and toxic programs. She has a proven track record dealing with a wide array of technical issues, complex laws, and intense public and congressional scrutiny."

"She has been Assistant Administrator for Policy, Planning and Evaluation since January 1988, overseeing the agency's development of policy and managing its regulatory process. She has had primary responsibility for developing the agency's position on global climate change. During her tenure, the policy office produced two key climate change reports to Congress, "The Potential Effects of Global Climate Change on the United States" and "Policy Options for Global Climate."

"Fisher joined the agency in July 1983, serving until December 1984 as Special Assistant to the Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency Response. From January 1985 until January 1988, she was Executive Assistant and Chief of Staff for Administrator <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Lee_M._Thomas" title="Lee M. Thomas">Lee M. Thomas</a> and, as such, was his chief policy and political advisor. She served as the agency's principal policy liaison with Congress and the White House in the rewriting of the <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Superfund" title="Superfund">Superfund</a> law in 1986.

"Earlier, she served as legislative assistant to Representative <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php?title=Clarence_J.Brown&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Clarence J. Brown (page does not exist)">Clarence J. Brown</a> from 1974 to 1976 and Representative <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Ralph_Regula" title="Ralph Regula">Ralph Regula</a> from 1976 to 1978 and as associate staff member for the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee from 1979 to 1980." <a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Linda_J.Fisher#cite_note-1">[2]</a>

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<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Linda_J._Fisher#cite_ref-0">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www2.dupont.com/Our_Company/en_US/executives/fisher.html">Linda J. Fisher</a>, DuPont, accessed October 3, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://66.39.128.35/index.php/Linda_J._Fisher#cite_ref-1">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.epa.gov/history/admin/oppts/fisher.htm">Linda J. Fisher</a>, EPA, accessed October 3, 2008.</li>

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Linda J. Fisher . . .former Assistant Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Pollution Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances, now Vice President of Government and Public Affairs for Monsanto Corporation.

Former Monsanto Executive Says She Won't Make Decisions

Affecting Firm (Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, 5 April 2001)

http://www.checkbiotech.org/root/index.cfm#

President George W. Bush has nominated Linda J. Fisher, a former

Monsanto Co. official, to be second-in-command at the Environmental

Protection Agency. A lawyer, she was Monsanto's representative in

Washington from 1995 to 2000. * Fisher coordinated the company's

strategy to blunt resistance to genetically modified food. Linda J. Fisher,

the ex-Monsanto Co. executive named to the Environmental Protection

Agency's No. 2 job, says she won't deal with EPA matters that directly

affect Monsanto. Besides recusing herself from actions involving Monsanto,

Fisher promised to work closely with EPA lawyers so that her role in

biotech rules and other issues in which Monsanto has a stake doesn't

raise red flags. "I take the reputation of the agency and the integrity

of its decisions very seriously. So I'm going to step out of anything

that comes close to a problem," she said in an interview. An EPA

official said Wednesday that Fisher would have to sign a formal

agreement that could spell out issues she must avoid and require

divestiture of Monsanto stock.

nrdc: EPA quietly backs off on reducing drinking water pollution

July 12, 2003: In a parting gift for polluters on her last day on the job, outgoing EPA Acting Administrator Linda Fisher signed off on four major drinking water regulatory decisions that will have profound and long-lasting effects on the health threats posed by drinking water of over 250 million Americans.

The 1996 Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments required the Environmental Protection Agency to decide every five years whether there are contaminants that are not regulated in tap water, and that pose health risks that should be addressed. Despite nearly seven years of review, the EPA decided not to regulate any new contaminates in tap water, including a toxin found at levels above the draft EPA safe level in over 20 million peoples' drinking water. Perchlorate, an ingredient of rocket fuel, interferes with normal thyroid function and may cause cancer. This EPA action is likely to delay any new enforceable standards until 2010 to 2015.

Despite pleas from the public health experts, the EPA also decided that all current drinking water rules are fully protective of public health, and need no revisions. The EPA did say it would amend the monitoring requirements for coliform bacteria, following a request made by the water industry.

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