EJ Expert Gets Nod for Superfund Office

Politico Morning Energy (by Matthew Choi)
June 14, 2021

The White House has nominated Carlton Waterhouse to run EPA’s Office of Land and Emergency Management, which oversees the expansive Superfund program and other waste issues. Waterhouse, who has been the top political appointee at OLEM since January, first joined EPA after graduating from Penn State and Howard University Law School in the 1990s. More recently, he's taught law at Howard and joined the board of the Environmental Law Institute. Waterhouse has done a lot of work on environmental justice — a key area for Superfund oversight given that contaminated sites are often located in or near communities of color and poor communities. . . .