Posted on June 23, 2010 by Rachael Bunday
ACOEL member Richard Lazarus has been appointed as staff director for the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, the commission announced Tuesday.
Lazarus, a Harvard University Law School graduate and current professor of environmental law at Georgetown University, will be tasked with coordinating the investigation that will determine what new regulations deepwater drilling will face after the Obama administration’s moratorium on the activity is lifted.
Current ACOEL president Jeff Thaler, a partner at Bernstein Shur, in Portland, Maine, applauded the commission’s choice.
“The Commission made a wise choice in selecting Richard Lazarus as staff director,” said Thaler. “Prof. Lazarus is a superb environmental lawyer and legal scholar with broad experience inside and outside of government. The College is proud to have him as a member.”
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