Energy Policy Expert Joins Environmental Defense Fund
September 9, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMedia Contact: Laura Williamson, Environmental Defense Fund, 512.691.3447-w or 512.828.1690-c or lwilliamson@edf.org (AUSTIN, TX – September 3, 2008) Kate Robertson has joined Environmental Defense Fund as Energy Efficiency Specialist for the Texas Climate and Air program. Robertson will help develop and implement strategies to promote energy efficiency in Texas and will help lead the organization’s larger, multi-year effort to influence state and national energy efficiency policy. Prior roles include work for the U.S. Government Accountability Office analyzing U.S. action on climate change and the U.S. voluntary carbon offset market; work for SAIC on climate change projects for the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and work for the U.S. Department of Energy on the Energy Policy Act of 2005. She has also worked for the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission and the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century (Hart-Rudman Commission) at the U.S. Department of Defense Robertson earned a master’s degree in International Energy and Environmental Policy and Economics from John Hopkins University and a master’s in Comparative Politics from the University of Glasgow in Scotland.