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| Name | David J. Hayes |
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| Info | David J. Hayes specializes in U.S. environmental and energy law and policy. He has been nominated as Deputy Secretary of the Interior in the Obama administration.
He served as Counselor to Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, and then as the Senate-confirmed Deputy Secretary of the Interior, during the Clinton administration (1997-2001). After leaving government, he has served as a Senior Fellow of the World Wildlife Fund, and as a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute (the think tank affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council). He also has practiced environmental and energy law as Global Chairman of the Environment, Land and Resources department at the firm of Latham & Watkins. He has received the #1 ranking among environmental lawyers in Washington, D.C. from Chambers & Partners’ peer rating system.
During Hayes' tenure as Deputy Secretary of the Interior, he focused on environmental priorities, including the acquisition and protection of threatened lands (e.g., the Headwaters old-growth redwood forest in Northern California); the restoration of threatened ecosystems (e.g. the Bay-Delta ecosystem restoration project in California); the introduction of modern water management approaches in the west (e.g. the Colorado River initiatives undertaken by the Clinton administration); the negotiation of habitat conservation plans under the Endangered Species Act; energy-related issues associated with federal lands and resources (e.g. oil and gas development, hydropower licensing, etc.); and the settlement of long-standing Indian water and land disputes.
Active in the non-profit field, Hayes serves the Vice-Chairman of the national conservation group, American Rivers, and he is a board member of RESOLVE, a non-profit that focuses on problem-solving in the energy and environmental fields. He is the former Chairman of the Board of the Environmental Law Institute.
During the 2007-2008 academic year, Hayes was a Consulting Professor at Stanford University's Woods Institute for the Environment, where he undertook a special project analyzing the regulatory challenges associated with carbon offsets. His report was published by the Center for American Progress. He is the author of dozens of journal articles on issues related to energy and the environment.
Hayes has been active in democratic politics in the energy and environmental field. He served on the EPA Transition Team for President-elect Clinton in 1992; acted a special emissary for Vice President Gore to advise the new President of Bolivia on sustainable development issues in 1993 and 1994; was a lead environmental and energy advisor to the Kerry campaign in 2004; and has been actively involved in the Obama campaign.
Hayes is a 1978 graduate of the Stanford Law School, and he is a 1975 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Notre Dame. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Visitors for the Stanford Law School. Born in Rochester, NY in 1953, Hayes lives in Arlington, VA with his wife Elizabeth Haile Hayes and their three children.
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