A longtime environmental watchdog leader and former senior EPA enforcement official is retiring.
Eric Schaeffer next month will retire from the Environmental Integrity Project, where he served as executive director since co-founding the group in 2002. Often a critical voice of the agency, he has pushed for environmental laws to be upheld and the cleanup of large-scale industrial pollution.
Schaeffer is retiring on May 25, Tom Pelton, the group’s communications director, told E&E News.
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“He has built his organization into one of the nation’s premier environmental watchdog groups and has battled tirelessly and successfully to reduce air and water pollution in some of our country’s most vulnerable communities,” Pelton said.
