2014 Green Ribbon Science Panel Members

Caroline Baier-Anderson, Ph.D.
US Environmental Protection Agency

Cal Baier-Anderson is a Toxicologist with the US Environmental Protection Agency, Design for the Environment (DfE) Branch.  DfE works in partnership with stakeholders from industry, environmental groups, and academia to reduce risks to public health and the environment through the use of inherently safer chemicals. In this capacity she conducts hazard and alternatives assessments to identify safer chemicals to promote informed substitution.   Prior to this position, she served as a health scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund and a part-time Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Cal earned a Ph.D. in Toxicology in 1999 from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, after which she served as a technical advisor to communities living adjacent to hazardous waste sites through EPA-funded community assistance programs.  Additional work experience includes risk assessment and risk communication consulting.

Ann Blake, Ph.D.
Environmental & Public Health Consulting

Ann Blake is an independent consultant who has worked for over twenty years in the area of environmental and public health regulation and chemicals policy reform at the local, regional, national and international levels.

Dr. Blake's experience spans regulatory enforcement, pollution prevention, alternatives analysis and standards-setting as well as legislative policy. Prior to consulting, Dr. Blake worked for the California Environmental Protection Agency's Department of Toxic Substances Control as a hazardous waste inspector and Northern California Pollution Prevention Coordinator. Dr. Blake holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, and a Ph.D. in molecular genetics and neural development from the University of Oregon. Dr. Blake's interest in green chemistry lies with the opportunity to create pragmatic solutions with a broad range of stakeholders to move us collectively towards a more sustainable economy that provides jobs and growth while protecting the health of individuals, communities and our environment.

Michael Caringello, MBA
S.C. Johnson & Son

Mike is Director of Regulatory Affairs at S.C. Johnson & Son with a scope that is global in nature across a diverse section of consumer products. His broad view of the impact of the Safer Consumer Product regulations is based upon the wide range of related activities his career has shown him.

He started his career as a research synthetic chemist and formulator in the Specialty Chemicals industry, before moving into Technical Service assisting customers formulate finished goods while obtaining his MBA. While in the lab, he began work in the regulatory area, in areas such as TSCA, MSDS generation, and hazardous waste control. This led him into management positions across a number of areas within chemical industry giants PPG Industries and BASF including government affairs; industrial hygiene; safety; global chemical inventory compliance; environmental compliance in air, water and waste for multiple manufacturing locations; security; food, drug and cosmetic compliance; pesticide product registration; Good Laboratory Practices and current Good Manufacturing Practices; Quality Audits; Environment Health and Safety Audits; transportation of dangerous goods; Product Stewardship; and more.

This was an ideal background for his move into the Consumer Products industry, first at Kimberly-Clark Corporation and then S.C. Johnson. His knowledge of the chemicals that go into the products and how they were manufactured allows for a more complete evaluation and understanding of potential issues, and the ability to make regulatory compliance a value added proposition to business rather than just a dreaded must have.

Throughout, he has believed that the best strategy to comply with a regulation is to work with the regulators, by the local, state, federal or international. A simple question up front can save a lot of wasted effort later; a partnership can lead to mutual understanding and assistance, which is critical at a time when everyone is stretched thin.

Additionally, beside volunteering for too many seasons to count as a youth soccer coach, he has served on a volunteer basis as a board member of not-for-profit agencies and Local Emergency Planning Commissions, the latter of which adds a totally different perspective when considering chemicals to be used.

Mike resides in the suburbs of Milwaukee with his wife and children.

William F. Carroll, Ph.D.
Occidental Chemical Corporation

Dr. William F. Carroll, Jr. holds a B.A. in Chemistry and Physics from DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, an M.S. from Tulane University in New Orleans, and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. He is currently Vice President, Industry Issues for Occidental Chemical Corporation in Dallas, TX, and also Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Bill is a Past President (2005) of the American Chemical Society and Chair of its Board of Directors (2012-2014). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and chair or member of a number of committees for the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a member of advisory boards for the sciences at DePauw, Tulane and the, and was 2009 chair of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents. He has chaired numerous committees for a variety of chemistry, plastics, fire protection and recycling organizations. He has served on expert groups commissioned by the United Nations Environmental Program, the US Environmental Protection Agency and three states. He holds two patents, and has over sixty-five publications.

Arthur Fong, Ph.D. (co-chair)
Apple Inc.

Art Fong is the Toxicology and Green Chemistry Program Manager in the Environmental Technologies group at Apple, driving Apple's efforts to remove harmful substances from its product designs and develop safer substitutes. Prior to joining Apple, Art was a senior toxicologist and corporate program manager for chemical management at IBM Corporation.

Art is engaged in a number of collaborative projects to advance the science and practice of green chemistry, alternatives assessment, and toxicology. He is a member of the steering committee and technical committee of the GreenScreen® for Safer Chemicals, a method for comparative chemical hazard assessment that can be used for identifying chemicals of high concern and safer alternatives, and was a member of the steering committee and technical committee of the US EPA DfE Flame Retardants in Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) Partnership, a project to advance understanding of human health and environmental impacts of conventional and alternative flame retardants in PCBs. He also served on the steering committee of the recently completed United Nations Environmental Programme Global Chemicals Outlook project.

Art is a product of the University of California educational system, receiving his undergraduate degree in genetics from UC Davis, and his Ph.D. in toxicology from UC Irvine.

Kenneth Geiser, Ph.D.
University Massachusetts-Lowell

Dr. Kenneth Geiser is a University Professor and Professor of Work Environment Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Dr. Geiser is past Co-Director of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production and served as Director of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute from its founding in 1990 to 2003. His research and writing focus on cleaner production, toxic chemicals management, international chemicals policy, safer technologies, and green chemistry and, in 2001, he completed a book, Materials Matter: Towards a Sustainable Materials Policy published by MIT Press. As a recognized expert on environmental and occupational health policy, he has served on various advisory committees for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the United Nations Environment Program and governing boards of several environmental organizations. He is currently the Project Director for the United Nations Environment Program’s Chemicals in Products Project and a Senior Fellow with the U.S. Green Building Council.

Helen Holder,
Hewlett-Packard Company

Helen Holder is a Master Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where she leads the Global Environmental Materials team. In her current role, she evaluates and qualifies materials for use in HP products, including plastics and additives, solders, fluxes, printed circuit board surface finishes, and other electronic materials. In this role, she has introduced environmental and human health criteria into technical specifications to complement traditional performance, cost, safety, and reliability requirements in materials selection. Ms. Holder started her career at HP in 1993, and has worked in a variety of manufacturing, materials, and procurement roles within the company. She received her Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, where she was an HP Resident Fellow.

Timothy F. Malloy, J.D.
UCLA School of Law

Professor Malloy teaches Environmental Aspects of Business Transactions, Regulatory Lawyering, Regulation of the Business Firm, Environmental Policy and Politics and Contracts. He is the faculty director of the interdisciplinary UCLA Sustainable Technology and Policy Program, and a member of the Center on Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology. He joined the UCLA Law faculty in 1998, after spending a combined 11 years in practice at private firms and at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region III. Professor Malloy’s research interests focus on environmental, chemical and nanotechnology policy, regulatory policy, and organizational theory and decision analysis, with particular emphasis on the relationship between regulatory design and implementation and the structure of business organizations. In addition, he has worked and written extensively in the area of risk governance and prevention-based regulation, melding together his academic interests with his work in the Sustainable Technology and Policy Program.

Kelly D. Moran, Ph.D. (co-chair)
TDC Environmental, LLC 

Kelly D. Moran is President of TDC Environmental, LLC, an environmental consulting firm specializing in water quality and pollution prevention. A chemist by training, for the last 20 years Dr. Moran has worked at the interface of science and public policy, assisting municipalities and state agencies with managing environmental pollution from consumer products. Dr. Moran has focused on identifying the true sources of pollutants and developing strategies to reduce or eliminate pollutant releases at their sources while avoiding regrettable substitutions. Her work spans a range of pollutants and products types--for example, she co-founded the Brake Pad Partnership and the Urban Pesticides Pollution Prevention Project. Dr. Moran has served on many advisory panels including the California Source Reduction Advisory Committee and the City of San Mateo Planning Commission. Dr. Moran earned a B.S. in Chemistry with Honors from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from U. C. Berkeley.

Julia Quint, Ph.D.
California Department of Public Health (Retired)

Julia Quint was Research Scientist and Chief of the Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service (HESIS), an occupational health program, prior to her retirement from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) in 2007. She has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Southern California and was a staff scientist at the University of California Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory before joining CDPH. Throughout her career as a public health scientist, she has initiated, developed, and contributed to projects and policies that are focused on protecting workers, communities, and the environment from toxic chemicals, and on promoting the development and use of safer alternatives to toxic chemicals.

Since her retirement, Julia has served on a number of scientific advisory committees, including committees of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) on tetrachloroethylene, health impact assessment, and review of the Department of Labor’s Site Exposure Matrix Database, the Cal/OSHA Health Expert Advisory Committee, and the DTSC Green Ribbon Science Panel. She is currently serving on the NAS Committee on the Design and Evaluation of Safer Chemical Substitutions: A Framework to Inform Government and Industry Decisions, the Scientific Guidance Panel of the California Biomonitoring Program, the CDC/NIOSH World Trade Center Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee, the UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment’s From Advancing Science to Ensuring Protection Advisory Group, the National Healthy Nail Salon Alliance Research Advisory Committee, and the CDPH Environmental Health Tracking Advisory Group. Julia has authored many peer-reviewed scientific articles and reports, and is the recipient of several awards for her work in public health.

Julie M. Schoenung, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis

Julie M. Schoenung is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of California, Davis. She is also a Co-Director for the University of California Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program Lead Campus in Green Materials. Professor Schoenung received her masters and doctorate degrees in Materials Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her bachelor's degree in Ceramic Engineering from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

Professor Schoenung has many years of experience in studying the materials selection process for all types of materials in a variety of applications. Her research focuses on the analysis of factors that guide the materials selection decision-making process, such as economics, environmental impact and toxicity, cost-performance trade-offs, and market potential. Professor Schoenung uses tools and datasets from several disciplines including management theory, health risk assessment, life cycle assessment and environmental economics in her research approach.

Megan R. Schwarzman, MD, MPH
University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Megan R. Schwarzman is a research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH), and Associate Director for Health and Environment of the interdisciplinary Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry. Her work focuses on endocrine disrupting substances, reproductive environmental health, U.S. and European chemicals policy, and the implications for human health and the environment of the production, use and disposal of chemicals and products. She earned her medical degree from the University of Massachusetts, completed her specialty training in Family Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and earned a master's of public health in environmental health at the University of California, Berkeley.. In addition to environmental health research, Dr. Schwarzman is a clinical instructor at University of California, San Francisco and practices medicine part time at San Francisco General Hospital.

Rebecca Sutton, PH.D.
San Francisco Estuary Institute

Rebecca Sutton received her B.S. in Environmental Resource Science from the University of California, Davis and her Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation explored molecular-scale interactions of ions and natural organic matter with clay mineral surfaces using molecular modeling techniques. Prior to joining SFEI in 2013, Dr. Sutton was a senior scientist with the research and advocacy non-profit Environmental Working Group, where she conducted research on chemicals of concern in air, water, soil, consumer goods, and people. At SFEI, Dr. Sutton works on various projects for the Regional Monitoring Program, with an emphasis on emerging contaminants.

Don Versteeg, PH.D.
The Procter & Gamble Company

Dr. Donald Versteeg is a Principal Research Scientist in the Environmental Stewardship Organization of The Procter & Gamble Company. He received his B.A. from Cornell University and Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1985 where his research involved the effects of environmental contaminants on biomarkers in fish. Don is an aquatic toxicologist, environmental risk assessor, and sustainability expert with over 25 years of experience. His research has ranged from the use of ecotoxicogenomics to understand the mode of toxic action in fish to the development of new risk assessment tools. As a sustainability steward, he is working to understand and improve the sustainability of consumer products and processes through intelligent selection of materials and design of new products. Don has more than 40 publications in refereed journals on the fate, effects, and environmental risk assessment of pharmaceuticals, personal care products and emerging contaminants. He is a member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), and serves as an editor of aquatic toxicology for the journal, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

Ken Zarker
Washington State Department of Ecology

Ken Zarker has been actively involved with hazardous waste, pollution prevention and toxics reduction programs for over thirty years. Ken has been responsible for managing state environmental programs in Texas and Washington State on hazardous waste permitting, policy, toxics reduction, and sustainability. Ken has served in a leadership capacity at the national and international levels as Chairman of the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable. Ken serves on several boards and committees, including the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS) Cross Media Committee, Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse (IC2), Green Chemistry in Commerce Council (GC3) and the Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council (ITRC). Ken has been working actively to support the development of regional green chemistry center in the Pacific Northwest and is involved with state and national chemicals policy development. Ken holds a B.S. in Environmental Management from the University of Houston at Clear Lake City.