John Quigley, DCNR’s Director of Legislation and Strategic Initiatives, will discuss DCNR’s in-depth study of the opportunities for carbon sequestration in Pennsylvania at the next Rachel Carson Forum on the Environment, Noon-1:00 p.m. April 19 in the Second Floor Auditorium of the Rachel Carson State Office Building, Harrisburg.

Carbon sequestration is one suite of tools that hold promise for reducing atmospheric concentrations of global warming gases.

Earlier this month, the world’s leading scientific panel on climate change reported that from the poles to the tropics, the earth’s climate and ecosystems are already being shaped by global warming and face inevitable, possibly profound, alteration.

Quigley joined DCNR as Director of Operations in February 2005, and was named Director of Legislation and Strategic Initiatives in July 2006. He closely guides some of DCNR's priority projects, oversees the formation of the department’s legislative activities, and helps the agency tackle some of the challenging goals outlined in its action plan.

Quigley holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Bloomsburg University, and a master of Public Administration degree from Lehigh University. He has done additional graduate work in business and economics.

The Rachel Carson Forum on Future of the Environment is a monthly mid-day speakers series that seeks to stimulate discussion on important environmental and sustainable development issues.

The Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Policy, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Office of Conservation Science, and the Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy are organizing this series.

For more information, contact Will Delavan by sending email to: wdelavan@state.pa.us or call 717-783-8727.

4/13/2007