Robert M. Sussman, Senior Fellow
Robert M. Sussman recently retired as a partner at the law firm of Latham & Watkins, where he headed the firm’s environmental practice in Washington, D.C. for 10 years.
During the Clinton administration, Robert served as Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. As EPA’s second-in-command, he had responsibility for all the agency’s programs and played a leading role on Superfund, global warming, science policy, and the environmental aspects of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Robert is on the Board of Directors of the Environmental Law Institute, the Board of Advisors of the Center for International Environmental Law, and was on the Board of the Environmental Alliance. He also served on the Steering Committee of the Enterprise for the Environment initiative chaired by former EPA Administrator Ruckelshaus and on the National Academy of Sciences Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology.
Robert is a leading expert on climate change and energy policy. He has published several articles on this subject and testified before Congress. Robert is currently focusing on the future of coal and global warming and recently co-authored two major reports on this issue for American Progress. Robert is also working on the roles of developed and developing countries under a new global climate agreement.
Robert is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.
Articles by Robert M. Sussman
- A Good Start, but Not Good Enough , November 7, 2008
- Solutions for Clean Air Policy: What to Do in the Wake of the Clean Air Interstate Rule Decision , August 26, 2008
- Challenges to Clean Air Policy: The Implications of the Clean Air Interstates Rule Decision , August 25, 2008
- Rebuilding Clean Air Policy: Challenges and Solutions for the Clean Air Interstate Rule , August 21, 2008
- Climate War Games , August 7, 2008
- Ask the Expert: Cleaning Up for the Olympics , August 4, 2008
- Securing Coal's Future , June 19, 2008
- Boxer Wins a Round , May 23, 2008
- The False Lure of Lower Gas Prices , May 6, 2008
- Global Warming Red Herring , April 21, 2008
- Early Deployment: Maximizing Carbon Capture and Storage Under the Lieberman Warner Global Warming Bill , April 16, 2008
- Johnson’s Latest Dodge , March 31, 2008
- EPA Leadership? , March 17, 2008
- Blocking State Leadership on Global Warming , March 7, 2008
- The Bush Administration Takes Two Big Steps Backward on Carbon Capture and Sequestration , February 6, 2008
- Bush Ignores Promise One Day After State of the Union , January 30, 2008
- The Future of Coal Under Carbon Cap and Trade , September 5, 2007
- Global Warming and the Future of Coal: Carbon Capture and Storage , May 31, 2007