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Judith Enck is an environmental advocate living in the Capital District of New York.

Enck served as Regional Administrator of Region 2 of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under President Barack Obama, starting in Nov. 2009. The longest serving Region 2 Regional Administrator, Enck stepped down from EPA in 2017. Region 2 includes New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and eight federally recognized Indian Nations. She was Deputy Secretary for the Environment in the New York State Governor's Office from 2007 to 2008. At EPA, Enck oversaw the removal of PCBs from the Hudson River by General Electric. ; the cleanup of PCBs from light fixtures in NYC Schools ; the environmental cleanup of NYC and NJ after Hurricane Sandy ; and, the cleanup of the Passaic River in NJ. She also worked on a case of pesticide poisoning of a Delaware family vacationing in St. Johns.

In her prior position as Deputy Secretary for the Environment under NYS Governor Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson, she oversaw the state’s environmental protection agencies including the Department of Environmental Conservation, Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Adirondack Park Agency, Agriculture and Markets, Department of State and others.

Prior to working for the Govern’s office, she served for eight years as a policy advisor to the New York State Attorney General. Prior to that, she was Senior Environmental Associate with the New York Public Interest Research Group. She was Executive Director of Environmental Advocates of New York. She is a past President of Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, former Executive Director of the Non-Profit Resource Center and a designer of her town’s (Poestenkill) recycling program. She worked with the New York State Legislature to pass a number of environmental laws including those dealing with g acid rain, toxics, pesticides, recycling, energy conservation and environmental funding.

Ms. Enck is credited for helping to establish New York State's bottle law and shutting down the Albany ANSWERS garbage incinerator in a low-income community. She is a graduate of the College of St. Rose in Albany, New York.