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EPA Names Bradley Campbell New Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator

Release Date: 12/15/99
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UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY REGION III- OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS AND GOVERNMENT RELATIONS 1650 Arch Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-2029 Phone - 215/814-5100 Fax - 215/814-5102 EPA Environmental News To View All Press Releases: https://www.epa.gov/region3/r3press/r3press.htm

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Carol M. Browner announced that President Clinton has appointed Bradley M. Campbell to succeed W. Michael McCabe as regional administrator for EPA’s mid-Atlantic region, which includes Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. McCabe was promoted to deputy administrator
of the U. S. EPA, the national agency’s number two job.

Browner said, “Bradley Campbell is a native of Philadelphia and an extremely experienced and qualified environmental manager. He brings to this important job a real commitment to the continued protection of public health and the environment for the people of the mid-Atlantic region and their communities.”

Campbell comes from the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), where he has been associate director for toxics and environmental protection. CEQ serves as the principal advisor to the President and Vice President on environmental policy, and coordinates the work of federal agencies on environmental matters.

Prior to his White House service, he was an attorney-advisor in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U. S. Department of Justice.

Campbell was born in Northeast Philadelphia, where he attended the Friends' Central School. Following graduation from Amherst College and the University of Chicago Law School, he had an active criminal and civil litigation practice that included extensive representation of environmental organizations concerned with the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Campbell co-founded the Common Ground Community Housing Development Co. In New York City, and chairs the board of the Echo Hill Outdoor School in Worton, Maryland.

At the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Campbell helped coordinate Administration policy or legislation on such vital programs as Superfund, hazardous waste, safe drinking water, cleaner air and water, pesticide and food safety, brownfields, wetlands and community right to know. Campbell also oversaw issues involving agriculture, federal facilities and environmental justice.

During his service at the U.S. Department of Justice, Campbell served as lead counsel in several prominent cases, including defense of the lender liability rule under Superfund (Kelley v. EPA) that ensures that polluters – not taxpayers – pay for toxic waste cleanup.

In 1993, Campbell received the Arthur Fleming Award for distinguished government service, which is based on a national competition. In that year, he also received the John Marshall Award, the Justice Department's highest honor.

An alumnus of Amherst College (B.A., magna cum laude, 1983) and the University of Chicago Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1987), where he was an editor of the Law Review, Campbell clerked for the Honorable Carl McGowan of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Campbell also spent several years in private practice.