Two new regional directors were named today by state Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Pete Grannis.
The following is from a press release issued today by the DEC.
William C. Janeway has been selected as regional director for DEC Region 3, which serves Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester counties. Suzanne Y. Mattei has been selected as regional director for Region 2, which serves the New York City boroughs.
Mattei most recently served as executive for the Sierra Club in New York City. While there, she led important initiatives including highlighting the health and environmental impacts of the World Trade Center terrorist attack, improving childhood lead poisoning prevention efforts, and protecting wetlands in Staten Island.
From 1998 to 2003, she was an associate counsel and public policy director for the New York State Trial Lawyers Association. Mattei has also worked for the New York City public advocate as an assistant deputy advocate for research and investigation, and for the New York City comptroller as a senior environmental advisor in the Office of Policy Management. While serving in both capacities, she developed valuable environmental experience focusing on issues including energy, wetland restoration, recycling, and solid waste.
Mattei was also the director for the Connecticut Fund for the Environment. She graduated from Washington State University with a B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, and received her law degree from Yale Law School.
