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</div><div>Board of Directors</div><div>photo</div><div>Jeff Gleason</div><div>CATF Board Chairman</div><div>Deputy Director, Southern Environmental Law Center</div><div>Charlottesville, VA</div><div>
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</div><div>Jeff Gleason is the Deputy Director and Director of Regional Programs at Southern Environmental Law Center. He was previously head of SELC’s Energy and Healthy Air Project and for 14 years led SELC’s efforts to promote energy reform and improve air quality in the Southeast.</div><div>
</div><div>Mr. Gleason is a past recipient of the EPA’s Clean Air Excellence award and was named Clean Air Conservationist of the Year. He earned his J.D. in 1981 from the University of Virginia School of Law and his B.A., with honors, in 1976 from Union College.</div><div>
</div><div>photo</div><div>Armond Cohen</div><div>Executive Director, Clean Air Task Force</div><div>Boston, MA</div><div>
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</div><div>Armond Cohen is co-founder and Executive Director of the Clean Air Task Force, which he has led since its formation in 1996. In addition to leading CATF, Armond is actively involved in CATF projects focusing on low carbon technology commercialization. Prior to his work with CATF, Armond founded and led the Conservation Law Foundation's Energy Project starting in 1983. He is an honors graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, and served as judicial clerk for the late Harlington Wood, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit 1982-1983. Armond has published numerous articles on climate, energy systems, and air pollution; he speaks and testifies frequently on these topics. He is a member of the Electric Power Research Institute Advisory Council, a founding board member of the Center for Sustainable Shale Development, a founding member of the Nuclear Innovation Alliance, and a member of the World Economic Forum (Davos) Global Agenda Council on Decarbonizing Energy.</div><div>
</div><div>photo</div><div>Eric Ingersoll</div><div>Consultant</div><div>Cambridge, MA</div><div>
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</div><div>Eric Ingersoll currently consults with startups commercializing new energy technology. Previously he was the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of General Compression, where he was the lead inventor of the company's technology and raised over $100M in equity. In addition to extensive experience managing technology development and commercialization as the CEO of several companies, Eric has advised the National Renewable Energy Lab, the California Energy Commission, the US EPA, the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust, and numerous other regional energy policy organizations on energy market transformation and energy technology commercialization. He is also a participant in the National Commission on Energy Policy and was recently honored at the White House as a 'Champion of Change for Renewable Energy.'</div><div>
</div><div>photo</div><div>Jane C.S. Long</div><div>Fellow, Center for Global Security Research</div><div>Principal Associate Director at Large</div><div>Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory</div><div>Livermore, CA</div><div>
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</div><div>Dr. Long is currently the Principal Associate Director at Large for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Fellow in the LLNL Center for Global Strategic Research. She works on reinvention of the energy system, adaptation in response to climate change, and geoengineering. She is co-chair of both the California’s Energy Future Committee and the National Commission on Energy Policy’s Task Force on Geoengineering, and a member of the governor’s advisory panel on adaptation. She is the former Dean of the Mackay School of Mines at University of Nevada, Reno, Director of the Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy, and Chairman of the Nevada State Task Force on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Dr. Long also worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where she served as Department Chair for the Energy Resources Technology Department including geothermal and fossil fuel research, and the Environmental Research Department.</div><div>
</div><div>photo</div><div>Bruce Phillips</div><div>Director and Co-Founder, The Northbridge Group</div><div>Concord, MA</div><div>
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</div><div>Bruce Phillips is a Director and co-founder of The NorthBridge Group, an economic and strategic consulting firm serving the electric and natural gas industries. Mr. Phillips works with clients on competitive market and regulatory initiatives to improve their economic performance. In over 25 years of consulting, he has advised companies in the electric utility, merchant power, power marketing, natural gas pipeline, and gas marketing industries, as well as government agencies and non-profit organizations. His recent work has focused on electric generation planning, investment analysis, and the economics of greenhouse gas emissions abatement.</div><div>
</div><div>Prior to helping establish The NorthBridge Group in 1992, Mr. Phillips was a Principal with Putnam, Hayes & Bartlett, an economic and management consulting firm. He holds a B.A. from College of the Atlantic, a M.F.S. from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Science, and an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management.</div><div>
</div><div>photo</div><div>Rick Sergel</div><div>Past President and CEO, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)</div><div>Wellesley, MA</div><div>
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</div><div>Until 2010, Richard P. Sergel was President and Chief Executive Officer of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), an organization certified by the U.S. federal government and the Canadian provinces to ensure the reliability of the North American bulk power system. Until 2004, Rick served as President and Chief Executive Officer for National Grid USA, a major Northeast electricity utility serving New England and parts of New York, and was Executive Director of National Grid Group plc for North America, following the completion of the National Grid and New England Electric System (NEES) merger in March 2000. From 1998 through the date of the merger, he was President and CEO of NEES, where he held positions of increasing responsibility since 1979. Rick is presently a director of State Street Corporation and Emera Inc. He has also served on the boards of the Edison Electric Institute, the Consortium for Energy Efficiency, and the United Way of the Merrimac Valley. He holds a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from Florida State University, a Master of Science in applied mathematics from North Carolina State University, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Miami.</div><div>
</div><div>photo</div><div>Sue Sheridan</div><div>President and Chief Counsel, Coalition for Fair Transmission Policy</div><div>Washington, DC</div><div>
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</div><div>Sue Sheridan is the President and Chief Counsel of the Coalition for Fair Transmission Policy (the CFTP.) Ms. Sheridan worked on the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee staff as Chief Counsel for Energy and Environment for Chairman John Dingell, and previously for Chairman Phil Sharp, from 1983-2008. Prior to her time on Capitol Hill, Ms. Sheridan worked at the Department of Energy and the White House Domestic Policy Council. Ms. Sheridan now is principal of Sheridan Energy & Environmental Consulting, LLC, and serves as Senior Policy Consultant to Van Ness Feldman law firm in Washington, D.C. She is an Adjunct Professor at the George Washington School of Law and has taught at the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs. Ms. Sheridan graduated from Duke University and Vanderbilt Law School.</div><div>
</div><div>photo</div><div>Edward Steinfeld</div><div>Faculty Fellow, Director of the China Initiative, Dean's Professor of China Studies, and Professor of Political Science, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University</div><div>Providence, RI</div><div>
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</div><div>Edward Steinfeld is the Dean's Professor of China Studies and professor in the Department of Political Science, as well as director of the China Initiative. Steinfeld received his BA, MA, and PhD in political science from Harvard University. In addition to a variety of academic articles, Steinfeld is the author of Playing Our Game: Why China's Rise Doesn't Threaten the West (Oxford, 2010) and Forging Reform in China: The Fate of State-Owned Industry (Cambridge, 1998). He is the author of numerous articles in both academic and non-academic journals, including Comparative Politics, Political Studies, World Development, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the South China Morning Post. Steinfeld is a member of the board of directors of the National Committee on US-China Relations, as well as a member of the academic committee of the Center for Industrial Development and Environmental Governance at Tsinghua University.</div><div>
</div><div>--</div><div>Dr. John Spengler</div><div>Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Engineering</div><div>Harvard School of Public Health</div><div>Dr. Daniel Jacob</div><div>Gordon McKay Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering</div><div>Division of Engineering & Applied Science</div><div>Harvard University</div><div>Dr. Howard Herzog</div><div>Principal Research Engineer</div><div>MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment</div><div>Dr. A. Myrick Freeman</div><div>William D. Shipman Research</div><div>Emeritus Professor of Economics</div><div>Bowdoin College</div><div>
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</div><div>=</div><div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Death_and_disease_attributable_to_fine_particle_pollution_from_Navajo">Death and disease attributable to fine particle pollution from Navajo</span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 2010, Abt Associates issued a study commissioned by the Clean Air Task Force, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization, quantifying the deaths and other health effects attributable to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Particulates_and_coal" title="Particulates and coal" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">fine particle pollution</a> from coal-fired power plants.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Navajo_Generating_Station#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> Fine particle pollution consists of a complex mixture of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Soot" title="Soot" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">soot</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heavy_metals_and_coal" title="Heavy metals and coal" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">heavy metals</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sulfur_dioxide_and_coal" title="Sulfur dioxide and coal" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">sulfur dioxide</a>, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nitrogen_oxide" title="Nitrogen oxide" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">nitrogen oxides</a>. Among these particles, the most dangerous are those less than 2.5 microns in diameter, which are so tiny that they can evade the lung's natural defenses, enter the bloodstream, and be transported to vital organs. Impacts are especially severe among the elderly, children, and those with respiratory disease. The study found that over 13,000 deaths and tens of thousands of cases of chronic bronchitis, acute bronchitis, asthma, congestive heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, dysrhythmia, ischemic heart disease, chronic lung disease, and pneumonia each year are attributable to fine particle pollution from U.S. coal plant emissions. These deaths and illnesses are major examples of coal's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/External_costs_of_coal" title="External costs of coal" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">external costs</a>, i.e. uncompensated harms inflicted upon the public at large. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Coal_plants_near_residential_areas" title="Coal plants near residential areas" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Low-income and minority populations</a> are disproportionately impacted as well, due to the tendency of companies to avoid locating power plants upwind of affluent communities. To monetize the health impact of fine particle pollution from each coal plant, Abt assigned a value of $7,300,000 to each 2010 mortality, based on a range of government and private studies. Valuations of illnesses ranged from $52 for an asthma episode to $440,000 for a case of chronic bronchitis.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Navajo_Generating_Station#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Table_1:_Death_and_disease_attributable_to_fine_particle_pollution_from_Navajo_Generating_Station">Table 1: Death and disease attributable to fine particle pollution from Navajo Generating Station</span></h4><table class="wikitable" style="font-size: 14px; margin: 1em 1em 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-collapse: collapse; color: black; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><tbody><tr><th width="120" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center; background: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Type of Impact</th><th width="120" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center; background: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Annual Incidence</th><th width="120" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center; background: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Valuation</th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Deaths</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">16</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">$120,000,000</td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Heart attacks</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">25</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">$2,800,000</td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Asthma attacks</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">300</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">$16,000</td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Hospital admissions</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">12</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">$270,000</td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Chronic bronchitis</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">11</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">$4,700,000</td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Asthma ER visits</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">15</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">$5,000</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.catf.us/coal/problems/power_plants/existing/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">"Find Your Risk from Power Plant Pollution,"</a> Clean Air Task Force interactive table, accessed March 2011</p></div><div>==</div></div>