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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. His current project evaluates a role for stormwater in nutrient trading programs. In addition, Evan is Chair of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Program Trading and Offsets Workgroup. He also assists with WRI efforts to develop shale gas projects.

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At WRI and elsewhere, Evan has authored or co-authored reports on U.S. water infrastructure, stormwater management, water quality trading, shale gas, the U.S. Farm Bill, and climate change and U.S. agriculture. He previously worked in the U.S. Congress and Rutgers Cooperative Extension, and served in the Peace Corps.

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 holds the American FFA Degree.