Former top EPA economist joins NYU policy institute

Al McGartland, who was EPA’s top economist for a quarter century until he retired earlier this month, is joining New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity (IPI), the group announced Sept. 29. McGartland is now IPI’s economic policy director after having served as the director of EPA’s National Center for Environmental Economics and the lead economist at the agency where he advised senior leadership on regulatory analysis, the incorporation of science, and environmental policy design and ensured EPA’s analyses reflected...