CSSD names permanent executive director
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The Center for Sustainable Shale Development said Tuesday it named Susan Packard LeGros its executive director. She joins CSSD from Stevens & Lee, a Philadelphia-based law firm, where she her preactice focused on environmental, natural resources and regulatory issues.
As the center’s new director, she will oversee the organization as it implements its independent, third-party certification process for shale producers in the Appalachian Basin.
LeGros succeeds Andrew Place, who served as interim executive director since CSSD’s launch in March 2013. Place is corporate director for energy and environmental policy at EQT Corp.
Prior to joining Stevens & Lee, LeGros was the founder and partner at LeGros Law Partners.
Through her work, she addressed environmental regulatory matters that involved air, water, waste and remediation issues. She has worked extensively with state environmental agencies and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. For more than 25 years, she has counseled clients on matters that include land use, wetlands and storm water regulations, emissions trading and institutional environmental policies.
She also has served as a section chief at the EPA, in corporate legal departments, and as executive director of the Mid-Atlantic Solar Energy Industries Association from 2005 to 2008.
Professionally, LeGros has chaired the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Environmental Law Committee. She also served as a vice chair of the American Bar Association’s solid and hazardous waste committee. She was appointed to the EPA’s Finance Advisory Board, which evaluates the interplay of tax and financing policy and environmental programs and participated on former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell’s Solar Working Group.
She was also recognized as one of the leading environmental lawyers in Pennsylvania by international legal research publisher Chambers & Partners.
“CSSD’s work has already served as a model for how environmental organizations and energy companies can work together toward shared goals,” said LeGros in a statement. “This is one of the most exciting challenges of my career to date – to harness the talents, resources and desire on the part of leading environmental groups and energy companies to ensure prudent development of shale gas resources.”