Contact: Sue Gander

EXPERTISE

Duties: Directs research, policy analysis, technical assistance, and resource development for the Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Division, which provides information on best practices affecting environmental protection, renewable energy, community design and federal facilities. Currently, the division conducts analysis of state and federal policies relating to air quality and greenhouse gases, transportation and land use, housing and community design, energy infrastructure, energy efficiency and renewable energy, water and coastal resources, brownfields, military bases, cleanup and stewardship of nuclear weapons sites, and working lands conservation.

BACKGROUND

Previous Positions: Program Manager, US Environmental Protection Agency Clean Energy-Environment State Partnership Program; Government Relations Director, Center for Clean Air Policy; Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Clean Air Policy

Education: M.A., Public Policy, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Certificate in Energy Analysis and Policy, University of Wisconsin-Madison; B.A., Public Policy, Brown University

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Gander, Sue, et al., Energy Efficiency Resource Standards: The Next Leap Forward (ACEEE Summer Study: August, 2006).*

Gander, Sue, et al., "State and Regional Energy Planning" Clean Energy-Environment Guide to Action: Policies, Best Practices and Action Steps for States (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: April 2006).*

Gander, Sue, et al., "Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standards" Clean Energy-Environment Guide to Action: Policies, Best Practices and Action Steps for States (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: April 2006).*

Gander Sue, et al., "Public Benefit Funds for Energy Efficiency" Clean Energy-Environment Guide to Action: Policies, Best Practices and Action Steps for States (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: April 2006).*

Gander, Sue, et al., "Emissions Trading is An Effective, Proven Policy Tool for Solving Air Pollution Problems" International Civil Aviation Organization Journal (September, 1999).*

Gander, Sue, et al., Air Quality and Electricity Restructuring: A Framework for Aligning Economic and Environmental Interests under Electricity Restructuring (Center for Clean Air Policy: March, 1997).*

Gander, Sue, et al., Wisconsin’s Strategy: Cleaning the Air, Protecting the Climate, Sustaining the Economy – Southeast Wisconsin Dialogue on Ozone and Global Climate Change, Phase Two Report to the Governor (Center for Clean Air Policy: November, 1995).*

Gander Sue, et al., Wisconsin’s Strategy: Cleaning the Air, Protecting the Climate, Sustaining the Economy – Southeast Wisconsin Dialogue on Ozone and Global Climate Change, Phase One Report to the Governor (Center for Clean Air Policy: July, 1994).*

*The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the National Governors Association or individual governor’s offices.