Bryan Hubbell, who served as a senior EPA researcher on climate change and air pollution, has joined the Washington-based think tank Resources for the Future as a senior fellow.
Hubbell, who accepted the Trump administration’s early retirement incentives to leave EPA earlier this year, started at RFF on Tuesday. There, he’s planning to continue working on analyzing the risks of climate change in his new role as the Trump administration has slashed funding for climate programs and as President Donald Trump has called climate change a “con job.”
Hubbell spent more than 27 years at EPA, most recently as national program director of the agency’s air, climate and energy research program in the agency’s Office of Research and Development. The Trump EPA announced plans in the spring to eliminate that stand-alone research office and to move some scientists to other divisions.
“It was made fairly clear that the role that I was in” was “not going to exist anymore in the new organization, and it wasn’t clear what my role would be within the organization,” Hubbell said this week.
