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Randy Strait
Vice President & Chief Operations Officer; Inventory & Forecast Expert

Mr. Strait has more than 24 years of experience in the air pollution field with expertise in preparing emissions inventories and forecasts for GHGs and criteria and hazardous air pollutants. He is project director and co-facilitator for CCS's Cross-Cutting Issues Technical Work Groups for several states. From August 1992 to January 2007, Mr. Strait held several senior management positions at E.H. Pechan & Associates, Inc., where he managed projects for the U.S. EPA to develop the National Emissions Inventory (NEI) for mobile and non-point (area) sources of criteria air and hazardous air pollutants. For the EPA he also evaluated costs and economic impacts associated with regulatory alternatives for national air pollution programs. Mr. Strait holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology from Northland College and a Master of Environmental Management degree from Duke University with additional graduate work in forest policy and economics.
Climate News

Obama Gets a Menu of Climate Actions He Can Take Without Congress
President Obama could invoke strong climate policies, like gasoline carbon limits, without congressional input before world leaders convene this fall to negotiate an international global warming treaty, a research group says in a plan provided to the administration.

Whitman & Peterson: Climate Bill Should Top the Congress’ To-Do List
As Congress approaches the August recess, our economy, energy and environmental security needs still top the to-do list of the president and Congress. This summer the Center for Climate Strategies and the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition have outlined how Congress can put a national strategy in place that gets all three on the same page: by passing comprehensive national climate change and energy policy that reflects our best policy options for immediate action.

New Climate and Energy Policies Could Create 2.5 Million Jobs, Hold Down Energy Costs
July 22, 2010 -- New greenhouse gas emissions and energy policies at the Federal level could generate as many as 2.5 million new jobs and $134 billion in economic activity in the U.S. while keeping energy costs down, according to a new report from the Center for Climate Strategies, published with Johns Hopkins University.

Colorado legislature raises state RES, move seen creating jobs
A coalition of stakeholders who worked on the Colorado Climate Panel's were critical to the new legislation’s passage. Since investor-owned utilities supply 60% of Colorado’s electricity, this implements most of the Panel recommendation (adopted by the Governor) on renewable energy standards (RES).
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