A top EPA water official in the Obama administration is set to join a Midwest environmental advocacy group as it fights the Trump administration’s policies.
Nancy Stoner, who led the agency’s water office from 2011 to 2014, will join the Environmental Law and Policy Center next week as a senior attorney. She’ll focus on clean water issues, including in the Great Lakes.
Stoner was EPA’s acting assistant administrator for water after Congress failed to confirm nominee Ken Kopocis. In that role, she oversaw the development of a proposal to amend the scope of the Clean Water Act over isolated streams and wetlands. She also led the agency’s initial response to a 2014 water crisis in Toledo, Ohio.
At the time, toxic algal blooms in Western Lake Erie entered Toledo’s drinking water intake, Stoner recalled in an interview. Half-a-million people were ordered not to drink or use their tap water for nearly three days.
