USEPA

On December 3, 2001 Jane M. Kenny became the new Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") Region 2. Ms. Kenny takes the EPA leadership position overseeing all federal environmental programs for a region covering New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

As Regional Administrator, Jane Kenny has overall responsibility for planning, programming, implementation and direction of EPA activities in Region 2. The Regional Administrator serves as the Administrator's principal representative in the region and is responsible for accomplishing the Agency's national objectives.

EPA Region 2 currently has 945 employees on-board. EPA staff are stationed at the main regional office at 290 Broadway in lower Manhattan; in an Edison, New Jersey facility, which houses the region's science laboratory; at the region's Caribbean Environmental Protection Division office in San Juan, Puerto Rico; in the Stamford, Connecticut Long Island Sound office and in field offices on St. Thomas and in Niagara Falls, New York.

Jane Kenny comes to EPA from the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs ("DCA"), where she served as Commissioner, working to address critical environmental and community redevelopment issues in the state, including brownfields redevelopment, urban revitalization and sustainability. During Commissioner Kenny's tenure, DCA created a variety of urban redevelopment tools, including the nation's first construction code to encourage the reuse of existing buildings, and the first state program to buildaffordable housing that meets top environmental and energy standards. The EPA recognized the "Sustainable Development-/Affordable Housing Pilot Program" with the Clean Air Excellence Award in 2000, and called it a national model that should be replicated elsewhere.

As DCA Commissioner, Ms. Kenny also served as chair of the state's Brownfields Task Force and the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission, which under Kenny's leadership, has taken the unprecedented action of preserving more than 1,700 acres of wetlands and uplands as open space.

Prior to serving as Commissioner of DCA, Ms. Kenny served as Chief of Policy and Planning in the Office of the Governor under Governor Whitman. Ms. Kenny was Vice President of Corporate and Community Affairs for Beneficial Management Corp. before joining Governor Whitman's office. She also served as the Cabinet Secretary for former Governor Thomas Kean.