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Perma-Fix Announces Appointment of Renowned Public and Private Sector Environmental Leader Kerry C. Duggan to Board of Directors
Served as Deputy Director for Policy to then Vice President Biden in the Obama-Biden White House and Held Senior Roles in the Energy Department Served as
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[{"type":"text","content":"Served as Deputy Director for Policy to then Vice President Biden in the Obama-Biden White House and Held Senior Roles in the Energy Department Served as Biden Campaign Appointee to the Biden-Sanders Climate Change Unity Task Force ATLANTA, May 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: PESI) (the “Company”) today announced the appointment of Kerry C. Duggan to the Company’s Board of Directors. Ms. Duggan is one of the nation’s premier environmental policy experts, having held senior roles in government, as well as the private, academic and non-profit sectors. Ms. Duggan is the founder of SustainabiliD, a sustainability and strategy consulting firm. In February 2021, Governor Whitmer appointed Ms. Duggan to the State of Michigan’s Council on Climate Solutions, to advise on the implementation of the MI Healthy Climate Plan, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to transition toward economywide carbon neutrality. In 2020-21, Ms. Duggan was a policy advisor and surrogate for the Biden campaign. Ms. Duggan was also a Biden appointee to the Biden-Sanders Unity Climate Change Task Force. After her time in federal service, Ms. Duggan co-founded the Smart Cities Lab, was a Partner with the Honorable Thomas J. Ridge’s firm, RIDGE-LANE Limited Partners, and served on the external advisory board of the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise and was a Board Member at the Global Council for Science and the Environment. She was also a Trustee of the University Liggett School. In 2018, Ms. Duggan was named to the prestigious “40 Under 40” list by Crain’s Detroit Business. Ms. Duggan spent nearly seven years in federal service, including in the Obama-Biden White House as Deputy Director for Policy to then Vice President Joe Biden for energy, environment, climate and distressed communities. Simultaneously, she served as Deputy Director of the Detroit Federal Working Group to support Detroit’s revitalization. Prior to the White House, Ms. Duggan held several senior roles at the Department of Energy, including as Secretary Moniz’s embedded Liaison to the City of Detroit (where she championed a citywide LED streetlight conversion), and in the Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy as Director of Stakeholder Engagement, Director of Legislative, Regulatory & Urban Affairs, a...