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Lexi Shultz
Director of Advocacy, Climate and Energy ProgramExpertise
Global Warming PolicyProfile
As the Union of Concerned Scientists' (UCS) director of Advocacy for the Climate and Energy Program, Lexi Shultz provides direction for our federal climate and energy policy work. This work is focused on advocating for practical, science-based solutions to climate change, while helping translate climate science information to coalition partners, decision makers and the general public. She has been actively engaged in helping to shape federal climate and energy policy in Congress and works with an extensive coalition of organizations and grassroots activists. Ms. Shultz also helps provide management for the entire Climate and Energy Program, including our state-based work in California, the Midwest, and the Northeast.
Previously, Ms. Shultz served as the Washington representative for climate policy as well as Washington representative for UCS’s Scientific Integrity Program. Before coming to UCS, she was the director of legislative and regulatory affairs for the Mineral Policy Center, now Earthworks, in Washington, D.C., where she campaigned to reform mining laws and promote environmentally and fiscally responsible mining. Earlier in her career, she ran a campaign against federal subsidies for environmentally harmful activities at the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. She has testified before House and Senate Committees on a number of environmental issues and served on the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT) Superfund Subcommittee to advise the EPA on the future of the Superfund Program.
Ms. Shultz's environmental work began in 1989 as an Eaton Fellow at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies (IES) in Millbrook, New York, where she studied the effects of acidity on heavy metal concentrations in streams, and ultimately served as manager of the Environmental Monitoring Program at the IES. She also held positions at the Pace Energy Project and the Environmental Defense Fund.
Ms. Shultz has an A.B. in chemistry from Vassar College, and J.D. Cum Laude and Environmental Law Certificate from Pace University School of Law. She has been a member of the Connecticut bar since 1996.
