Dr. J. Winston Porter is a leading environmental and management consultant, whose recent experience includes solid waste management, hazardous waste site remediation, urban litter control, agricultural biotechnology, and global climate change. He is also president of the Waste Policy Center (WPC) in Leesburg, Virginia, near Washington, D.C. The WPC is a private research and consulting organization which deals with environmental management and policy issues related to both governmental and business organizations.

In addition to his consulting activities, Dr. Porter is a frequent communicator on environmental matters through reports and speeches, as well as op-ed articles in numerous major newspapers, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. For example, he has spoken and written extensively on such topics as American and European waste management, environmental benefits of ag-biotechnology, federal facilities site remediation, and changes needed to reduce Superfund cleanup times dramatically.

From 1985 to 1989, Dr. Porter was the Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency Response at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In this position, he was the national program manager for the Superfund and RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) programs.

Dr. Porter's responsibilities at EPA included administration of a budget of approximately $2 billion per year, direction of major regulatory development and enforcement programs, responsibility for work at over 800 Superfund sites, testimony at some 50 Congressional hearings, and frequent interviews with many of the nation's leading media outlets.

Among his EPA accomplishments was the establishment of a national goal for recycling 25% of the country's municipal solid wastes, which was reached in 1995. Under his direction a joint EPA-state mechanism was developed to remediate federal facilities such as nuclear weapons sites. Statutory deadlines were also met for permitting over 500 waste management facilities and establishment of some 3,000 local emergency planning programs.

Earlier, Dr. Porter was with the Bechtel engineering and construction organization, where he managed the environmental department, and later directed the master plan for the $20 billion Jubail Industrial City in Saudi Arabia. He also served as a vice-president of several Bechtel affiliates in the Middle East.

Dr. Porter received his B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and his Ph.D. in the same field from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a registered professional engineer in California, Texas, and Virginia. Recently, he was chosen as a "distinguished engineering graduate" of the University of Texas at Austin.

William J. Jones is currently adjunct professor of environmental law at Seton Hall Law School, and a legal consultant with specialties in environmental law, litigation management and risk analysis, and alternative dispute resolution. He was formerly General Solicitor of AT&T Corporation, which included serving as chief environmental counsel.

At AT&T, Professor Jones had legal responsibility for all environmental areas, including Superfund and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), as well as air and water pollution issues. At AT&T and in private practice, he has been personally involved as counsel, consultant or expert witness, in over one hundred Superfund cases. He is on the Board of Advisors of the Information Network for Superfund Settlements, and has also served with various other organizations dealing with Superfund and other hazardous waste policy and implementation issues. Earlier assignments with AT&T included responsibilities for antitrust and general litigation as well as regulatory compliance matters.

Professor Jones has also had extensive experience in the areas of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and litigation risk analysis, and has spoken and written broadly on these subjects. As a member of the Center for Public Resources (CPR) legal program, he served on various committees which produced pioneering developments in ADR procedures for businesses and public institutions.

Among his specific activities at CPR, Professor Jones was the chairman of a panel which developed a comprehensive manual for resolving multi-party disputes, editor of a practical guide for implementing ADR programs in corporate law departments and law firms, and member of a committee which developed ADR procedures for cost allocation in hazardous waste cases.

He has also served on the board of advisors of the Center for Litigation Risk Analysis, and as senior legal auditor for the Legal Management & Audit Group in Florham Park, New Jersey.

Professor Jones is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and is a member of the New York Bar.

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