CONTACT INFORMATION:

For state-level issues and state trends:

Kimberly Larson

Deputy Political Director
State PIRGs
(206) 357-1788
(213) 251-3680 x323

For federal issues:
Elizabeth Hitchcock

Communications Director
U.S. PIRG
(202) 546-9707

Emily Figdor
Federal Clean Air & Energy Advocate, U.S. PIRG

(202) 546-9707 ·

Expertise: air pollution, power plants, auto pollution/diesel, global warming

Background: Ms. Figdor directs U.S. PIRG’s clean air and global warming programs.  In 2005, she was a leader in the successful campaign to stop the Bush administration’s air pollution bill, which would have substantially weakened Clean Air Act protections. Ms. Figdor has authored numerous reports on air quality, mercury contamination, power plant pollution, diesel pollution and global warming, including Reel Danger: Power Plant Mercury Pollution and the Fish We Eat, which analyzed EPA test data on fish caught from U.S. lakes and found that 55 percent of the fish samples contained unsafe levels of mercury for women of childbearing age. Ms. Figdor has appeared on ABC’s World News Tonight and in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Associated Press, and Los Angeles Times. Prior to joining the PIRGs, she worked as a senior policy analyst at the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association and on state-level policy at the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a health advocacy group.

Education: BA, Stanford University; Masters in Public Health, Columbia University

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