Senior Director, Conservation America Campaign, Environment America
Started on staff: 1991
B.A., Wartburg College
Steve directs Environment America’s efforts to protect our public lands and waters and the species that depend on them. He led our successful campaign to win full and permanent funding for our nation’s best conservation and recreation program, the Land and Water Conservation Fund. He previously oversaw U.S. PIRG’s public health campaigns. Steve lives in Sacramento, California, with his family, where he enjoys biking and exploring Northern California.
A regulatory loophole has allowed seeds coated with neonicotinoid pesticides to fly under the Environmental Protection Agency’s radar — with dangerous consequences for America’s birds and pollinators.
Pesticides and habitat loss are damaging bee populations, but you can help protect them from the comfort of your home with 5 easy actions.
Sysco delivers wholesale food to a wide variety of businesses including restaurants, hotels and hospitals — but in the process, its use of plastic packaging is contributing to the plastic pollution crisis that kills 1 million marine animals every year.
For bees, butterflies and other pollinators suffering from habitat loss, even the smallest patch of green can be a vital oasis, helping them to survive and thrive.
Home to caribou and polar bears, Alaska’s North Slope could soon also be the new home of a massive oil project that would pump the carbon emissions equivalent of 66 new coal-fired power plants into the atmosphere.
