Renee Cipriano

Renee Cipriano was appointed director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency in 2001 and later had responsibility for regulating mercury pollution until she resigned in June 2006. She subsequently became a partner in the Environmental Energy Group and Public Law & Policy Strategies Group practice of the Chicago law firm, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal.

The Chicago Tribune reported that six months after leaving the agency, Cipriano and others at the law firm where she works had been hired by Ameren to lobby on a government proposal "to cut mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants by 90 percent within three years." [1]

Other SourceWatch resources

• Government-industry revolving door

External links

• "Renee Cipriano, Partner" accessed February 2006.
• Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, "Renee Cipriano Confirmed as Illinois EPA Director", Media Release, November 14, 2001.
• Governor Rod R. Blagojevich, "Gov. Blagojevich thanks IEPA Director Renee Cipriano for a job well done: Cipriano to return to private sector; Former Rockford Mayor Doug Scott to become IEPA director - Scott and Cipriano to work together through June", Media Release, May 12, 2005.
• Michael Hawthorne, "EPA chief turns coal lobbyist: Mercury foe now represents a top polluter", Chicago Tribune, February 9, 2006.

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