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Evan Branosky is an associate for WRI’s water quality team, which advances market-based mechanisms and other policies to restore surface water quality throughout the world. A major area of work focuses on the Chesapeake Bay and Gulf of Mexico.

At WRI, Evan has authored or co-authored reports on U.S. water infrastructure, water quality trading, the U.S. Farm Bill, and climate change and U.S. agriculture. Recently, he and WRI colleagues assessed MS4, wastewater treatment, and agriculture impacts from nutrient trading provisions of the Chesapeake Clean Water and Ecosystem Restoration Act of 2009 (H.R. 3852/S. 1816). Currently, he is helping to develop trading programs and expand them to sectors beyond agriculture and wastewater. Evan is also working with a cross-WRI team to scope projects on shale gas.

Evan holds a B.S. in agricultural science and certificate in environmental geomatics from Rutgers University and an M.P.P. in environmental policy from the University of Maryland, College Park. His graduate school project focused on the water impacts from hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale of the U.S. Northeast. Evan was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Haiti and received the FFA American Degree.