Join MAREP as we discuss the origins of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and how the landscape has changed over the 50+ years of enactment. Ms Sharay Jackson-Dixon, a Chemical Risk Manager with the US Environmental Protection Agency, will talk about the work she has done with respect to air quality, climate change, and greenhouse gases within the oil and gas sector, an important industrial sector now facing regulation under the EPAs new Waste Emissions Charge (WEC).
Ms Jackson-Dixon will also discuss upstream and downstream sources of air and greenhouse gas emissions that typically occur at oil and gas well sites and facilities. As an additional treat, Miss Jackson-Dixon will briefly discuss the federal government’s Helium Gas Program that sunset in 2022 and her work done there.
Speaker:
Sharay Jackson-Dixon is an environmental professional with a 25 years of experience, currently working as a Chemical Risk Manager for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, DC within the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP). Previously she has worked for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as the Lead Air Quality Specialist applying air quality, climate change and greenhouse gas expertise to various programs in the federal government across Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas.
Ms Jackson-Dixon has also worked as an environmental scientist for Leidos (formerly SAIC), applying meteorological and air quality expertise for radioactive dose modeling of nuclear power plants, and NEPA management for nuclear waste cleanup sites.
She is a military veteran, having supported the Iraq and Afghanistan War Campaigns as an Air Force meteorologist. Miss Jackson-Dixon has undergraduate degrees in Meteorology and Environmental Science and a M.S. in Environmental Management.
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