Newswise — Christine Todd Whitman, whose political career has included service as governor of New Jersey and administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, will be the Riley Institute’s Woodrow Wilson Fellow-in-Residence at Furman University on March 1-3.
Whitman will present a public lecture Tuesday, March 2 at 7 p.m. in Shaw Hall of the Younts Conference Center. Her talk, “The Changing Nature of Environmental Policy: How We Got Where We Are and How We’ll Get Where We’re Going,” is free and open to the public.
Whitman served two terms as the first woman governor of New Jersey from 1994-2001 and in the cabinet of President George W. Bush as EPA administrator from 2001-03.
As governor, she worked to preserve more New Jersey land as permanent green space and to institute a comprehensive beach monitoring system. While she ran the EPA, the agency established the first federal program to promote the redevelopment and reuse of brownfields or previously contaminated industrial sites.
A moderate Republican, Whitman clashed with the Bush administration over climate change issues and air pollution controls and ultimately resigned from the EPA. Her book, "It’s My Party, Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America," was published in 2005.
As co-chair of the Republican Leadership Council, which Whitman founded with former U.N. ambassador and U.S. Sen. John Danforth, she supports fiscally conservative and socially tolerant candidates.
Whitman is president of The Whitman Strategy Group, a consulting firm specializing in energy and environmental issues.
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