Robert M. Wolcott

Robert Wolcott is a former Deputy Assistant Administrator for Policy at EPA (1995 and 2000) and, between 1983 and 1985, served as Assistant to the EPA Administrator on policy matters, including the phase-down of lead in gasoline. Wolcott is now a consulting economist focusing on the intersection between the environment and the economy. He began his EPA career as Regional Economist in the agency’s San Francisco office and then served as West Coast Director of the Public Interest Economics Foundation and as its Executive Director in Washington DC. He returned to EPA and went on to direct several EPA divisions in Washington DC, ranging from Economic Analysis to Agriculture to Water Policy. From 1990 through 1992, Wolcott advised the EPA Administrator on special projects, including environmental justice and the controversy over the Spotted Owl. He chaired EPA’s Work Group on Environmental Justice, overseeing the preparation of the agency’s report on the issue and revisions in agency policies and procedures responding to this challenge.