Jeff Alson lives in Ann Arbor, has been an anti-nuclear power activist since the late 1970s, and joined the ATHF3 board in 2019. Jeff has a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering from Purdue University and spent 40 years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory, which has been the global leader in reducing vehicle pollution since the 1970s. While at EPA, he published widely on the challenges involved with new transportation fuels, and co-authored a book and a Scientific American article on the topic. He also helped establish the first-ever federal greenhouse gas emissions standards of any kind in the U.S., which are reducing new car and SUV greenhouse gas emissions. In retirement, he has been an outspoken critic of the Trump EPA’s proposal to decimate these critical standards and active with the Environmental Protection Network, a group of 500 EPA alumni dedicated to defending the Agency’s mission.