Shapiro names Rich Negrin as Secretary of Environmental Protection, and asks Wolf Administration secretaries Russell Redding and Cindy Dunn to stay on as secretaries of Agriculture, and Conservation and Natural Resources, respectively.
From left to right, Rich Negrin, Environmental Protection; Cindy Adams Dunn, Conservation and Natural Resources; Russell Redding, Agriculture.Gov.-Elect Josh Shapiro has kept it simple for two of his latest Cabinet appointments, asking current state Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding and Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn to stay on for a new hitch in state government.
DEP, with a broad portfolio covering everything from municipal water supplies and stream quality to power plant and vehicle emissions to permitting for Pennsylvania’s lucrative extraction industries, is perennially one of the state’s most cussed and discussed bureaucracies. His resume also show stints as a litigator with the Morgan Lewis law firm, and as associate general counsel of the Philly-based food service giant, ARAMARK.The other appointments announced Tuesday, meanwhile, may be among the easiest confirmation battles of the cycle.
Immediately prior to joining Gov. Tom Wolf’s cabinet, Dunn was president and chief executive officer of PennFuture, a statewide environmental advocacy organization.
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