Malloy Names Environment Chief

By Mark Pazniokas

©The Connecticut Mirror

Governor Dannel P. Malloy has named Daniel C. Esty, a Yale professor with a national reputation for reconciling environmentalism and economic growth, as his choice to run a new Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

Esty, an energy adviser to Barack Obama’s transition team, is the author of nine books, including a volume that marked him as an environmentalist attuned to economics, Green to Gold, How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage.

“Specifically, it is not an environmentalist telling businesses how to behave, but is a business perspective on bringing the environment into corporate strategy,” one reviewer wrote.

Esty was reported two years ago as being on Obama’s short list for possible administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency. The book reportedly brought Esty to the attention of then-candidate Obama.

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