Cherry Hill Man Earns Appointment

Craig Oren, a professor at the Rutgers University School of Law at Camden, has been appointed to a National Research Council committee charged by Congress to evaluate the environmental impact of recent policy changes by the Bush administration.

The changes to rules for new sources make it easier for companies to change their facilities without having to comply with the Clean Air Act's requirements for new or modified sources. In response to protests by states and environmental groups, Congress ordered a study of the rules' effects to be conducted by the National Academy of Sciences, which will implement the study through the National Research Council.

The newly formed NRC Committee on the Effects of Changes in New Source Review Programs for Stationary Sources of Air Pollutants is composed of leading experts in the areas of health, science, and engineering. During the next two years, the committee will evaluate such criteria as emissions, pollution control, and human health conditions. The committee will present to Congress and the nation an interim report at the end of 2004, and a completed report at the end of its work.

Oren has served on the National Research Council's Committee on Haze in National Parks and Wilderness Areas, where he was the only attorney on the special 14-member committee that helped to develop controls on a large power plant near the Grand Canyon. He then was appointed to the Committee on Risk Assessment of Hazardous Air Pollutants, which was formed by order of Congress upon passage of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.

Prior to joining the faculty at the Rutgers University School of Law at Camden, Oren served as assistant counsel to a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee with jurisdiction over the Clean Air Act, and as a consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

A resident of Cherry Hill, Oren earned his bachelor's (1973) and law (1976) degrees at the University of California at Berkeley.

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