About Norris Norris McDonald Is the founder and president of the Center for Environment, Commerce and Energy and its outreach arm, the African American Environmentalist Association. He has been a career environmentalist for 36 years. Formerly with the Environmental Policy Center (now Friends of the Earth), as Director of the Energy Conservation Project, he is an energy and environmental specialist. He has authored and successfully worked for the passage of national energy legislation before the U.S. Congress. He has presented testimony before federal, state and local regulatory agencies, U.S. House and Senate Energy and Environmental Committees. 2012 Ebony magazine Power 100 Award. McDonald led the fight in Congress in the early 1980s to maintain Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) Standards. McDonald drafted and led the lobbying campaign in the U.S. Congress to pass the Federal Shared Energy Savings Act, signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. He recently assisted in the passage of the first civil rights legislation of the 21st Century, the No Fear Act, signed by President Bush on May 15, 2002. He was the author of the first comprehensive studies of pollution in Washington, D.C. He is a recognized national speaker on energy and environmental issues and has appeared in numerous print and electronic media. He has received special recognition from the U.S. Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Interior. His autobiography, Diary Of An Environmentalist is available on Amazon.com Norris McDonald, a 1977 graduate of Wake Forest University, raised a son (now 23 years old) as a single parent and enjoys boating, golf, tennis, fishing, skiing, swimming, chess, helicopters, guitar and website design. NorrisMcDonald@msn.com (443)-569-5102 CenterforEnvironment.org

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