Allen Hershkowitz Ph.D.

Senior Scientist at the National Resource Defense Council

Dr. Hershkowitz is currently a Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, specializing in issues related to sustainable development, the paper industry, industrial ecology, health risks, solid waste management, recycling, medical wastes, and sludge. Dr. Hershkowitz served on the National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council Committee on the Health Effects of Waste Incineration.  He was the originator of the Bronx Community Paper Company project, a half-billion dollar paper recycling, brownfield clean-up and sustainable community development project in New York City. He has also served on the EPA's Science Advisory Board Subcommittee on Sludge Incineration, as well as the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's Peer Review Panel for it's Report to Congress on the Health Implications of Medical Waste. Dr. Hershkowitz was a principal author of President Clinton’s “Greening the Government” Executive Order # 12873.   He has recently published the book Bronx Ecology: Blueprint for a New Environmentalism, in addition to his numerous articles in the Environmental Impact Assessment Review (MIT), Technology Review, The New York Times, Newsday, Social Research and many other journals.