The Gulf Coast Region: People
By Steve Dwyer
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 Meet local decision-makers who are making a positive impact on brown and green initiatives
Trey Hess,
Brownfields Program Coordinator for the Mississippi Dept. of Environmental Quality (MDEQ)
A 15-year veteran of MDEQ, Hess was instrumental in the development of the program's tiered approach to determining realistic, site-specific cleanup options. While working in the Uncontrolled Sites Section, he managed soil and groundwater cleanups at industrial and commercial facilities. His career started in the Groundwater Division where he provided oversight of the design and operation of solid waste management operations at industrial and commercial facilities. Holding a Bachelor's degree and an MBA from Mississippi State University along with a Master's degree from the University of Mississippi, Hess is a registered Professional Engineer and a Board Certified Environmental Engineer (BCEE). He said that "an ideal work environment would allow me to manage a small group of highly skilled individuals—engineers, geologists, attorneys, and developers—with the objective of developing and implementing plans for assisting communities, industries, special interest groups, and regulators in their efforts to meet their respective goal, which would include cleaner environment, better quality of life, and economic development."
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Count On It
  28 percent approximate amount of all energy used in the Unites States for transporting people and goods from one place to another.
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 200-300 estimated number of hydrogen-fueled vehicles in the United States today
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 9,783,000 number of barrels of crude oil the United States imports each day.
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 1 million number of gallons of fresh water that can be contaminated from the used oil from one oil change.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 20 million number of people that celebrated the first Earth Day on Aril 22, 1970.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 $2.3 billion amount President Obama awarded for clean energy manufacturing projects across the United States
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 509 approximate number of operational landfill gas (LFG) energy projects currently in the United States. LFG electricity generation projects provide the energy equivalent of powering more than 920,000 homes annually
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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