The Department of Environmental Protection this week made two major personnel announcements.

Thomas K. Fidler has now been approved as Deputy Secretary for Air, Recycling and Radiation Protection. He had been acting in that position.

Richard Struble has been appointed the new Director of the Bureau of Land Recycling and Waste Management. Struble has more than 35 years experience in managing environmental programs and projects with both the public and private sectors. Richard started his career as a regional office manager for New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation. Most recently, he was responsible for corporate quality review of hazardous and solid waste management projects for a private environmental consulting firm. He has both undergraduate and advanced degrees in Civil Engineering from Cornell University. He will begin work on December 13.

And long-time waste management “guru” William Pounds, chief of the Division of Municipal and Residual Waste at DEP, announced he was retiring at the end of the year.

12/10/2004