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Bernadette Del Chiaro directs Environment Californias clean energy and global warming programs for Environment California and Environment California Research & Policy Center. Since joining staff in 2002, Ms. Del Chiaro has led a number of highly successful campaigns including the Million Solar Roofs initiative which created the nations largest investment in solar power in history. She was also a leading voice in the landmark campaign to establish an economy-wide cap on global warming pollution in California, AB 32.

As program director, Ms. Del Chiaro advocates before the California State Legislature, the California Energy Commission, the California Public Utilities Commission, and before numerous municipal agencies and governments on clean energy and global warming issues. She's been widely quoted and published in numerous media outlets including MSNBC, NPR, New York Times, BBCs World News, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle, Reuters and Bloomberg News.

Prior to joining Environment Californias staff, Bernadette served as Organizing Director for the Toxics Action Center where she coordinated the successful campaign to clean up Connecticut's "Filthy Five" coal-fired power plants as well as assisted dozens of community groups throughout New England fighting local environmental hazards. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Toxics Action Center as well as Pesticide Watch, a California-based group providing assistance to communities fighting pesticide pollution. She is a former Board Member of the New England Grassroots Environment Fund. In 1998, she graduated from Green Corps, the field school for environmental organizing, and from 1995-1996, Ms. Del Chiaro staffed the local campaign office to stop the proposed Ward Valley nuclear waste dump in Needles, California as an intern with Greenpeace. Del Chiaro holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Conservation and Resource Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. She grew up in Sonoma California and now lives in Sacramento, California with her husband, Steve Blackledge and son, Oliver Cassius.

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Thanks Bernadette Del Chiaro!