Rich Kassel
Senior Attorney and Director,
Clean Fuels and Vehicles Project,
at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
New York City

Rich joined the the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in 1991 on a three-year grant, and never left. Over the years, Rich has worked on a lot of issues, including airport pollution, preserving community gardens and creating the Hudson River Park in NYC.

Most of his time is spent working to reduce the public health impacts from diesel buses, trucks, and other engines. This work started with the Dump Dirty Diesels Campaign to clean up NYC Transit's buses in the 1990s, and has since expanded to work at the federal level, and to similar projects in Mexico City and other polluted mega-cities around the world.

He now works on a range of projects to reduce the climate and other environmental impacts of transportation systems, including projects to increase funding for public transit, to improve our ports, and to create bus rapid transit systems in our cities.