Marjorie J. "Maggie" Clarke is an American
environmental scientist who specializes in recycling participation,
waste prevention methods,
waste-to-energy/incinerator emissions controls, environmental impacts of the
World Trade Center fires and collapse, and community botanical gardening. Since the
September 11, 2001 attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial ...
she has focused on increasing participation in New York City's waste prevention and recycling programs.
Early life and education
She was born on July 14, 1953, in
Miami, Florida. She graduated in 1975 with a B.A. in geology from
Smith College
Smith College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith (Smith College ...
. She received an M.S. in environmental science from
Johns Hopkins University in 1978 and in energy technology from New York University in 1982. She completed a Ph.D. in 2000 for environmental sciences.
Career and research
Clarke was the Department of Sanitation's specialist on
emissions from
incinerator
Incineration is a waste treatment process that involves the combustion of substances contained in waste materials. Industrial plants for waste incineration are commonly referred to as waste-to-energy facilities. Incineration and other high ...
s from 1984 to 1988 and served on a
National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...
committee on Health Effects of Waste Incineration.
From 2002 to 2004, she was a scientist-in-residence and adjunct assistant professor at
Lehman College
Lehman College is a public college in the Bronx borough of New York City. Founded in 1931 as the Bronx campus of Hunter College, the school became an independent college within CUNY in September 1967. The college is named after Herbert H. Lehma ...
, and an
adjunct professor
An adjunct professor is a type of academic appointment in higher education who does not work at the establishment full-time. The terms of this appointment and
the job security of the tenure vary in different parts of the world, however the genera ...
at
Hunter College
Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also admi ...
,
City University of New York
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from 1996 to 2005.
Clarke is a persistent questioner of
United States Environmental Protection Agency's claims about the safety of the
World Trade Center site.
She also conceived and garnered support for a New York City local law to eliminate 2200 apartment building incinerators which was signed into law in 1989.
NGO participation
Clarke has been chair or vice chair of the ''Manhattan Citizens' Solid Waste Advisory Board'' for 8 of the years since its inception in 1990.cShe co-founded and has been president of the ''Riverside-Inwood Neighborhood Garden (RING)'', a volunteer botanical garden in Upper Manhattan, since 1984.
See also
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Health effects arising from the September 11, 2001 attacks
References
External links
www.maggieclarkeenvironmental.com- Papers and testimony
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1953 births
Living people
American environmentalists
American women environmentalists
American environmental scientists
People from Miami
Smith College alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
New York University alumni
CUNY Graduate Center alumni
Lehman College faculty
Hunter College faculty
American scientists
21st-century American women