Wilma Subra (born 1943) is an American environmental scientist. She is President of the Subra Company, an environmental consulting firm."Biography of Wilma Subra"
Environmental Protection Agency, 2007. Subra was born in

Morgan City, Louisiana Morgan City is a small Citibank, city in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, St. Mary and lower St. Martin parishes in the U.S. state, U.S. State of Louisiana. The population was 12,404 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. Known for being “rig ...

, and was raised there and in nearby Bayou Vista. Her father was a chemist, and her grandfather an oyster fisherman. She obtained a bachelor's degree in microbiology and chemistry in 1965 from the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette, and her master's a year later.Peggy Frankland, ''Women Pioneers of the Louisiana Environmental Movement'', University Press of Mississippi, 2013
p. 167
From 1967 until 1981 Subra worked for the Gulf South Research Institute. She founded the Subra Company in May 1981 to help people facing problems because of

environmental health Environmental health is the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health. In order to effectively control factors that may affect health, the requirements that must be met in ...

issues. Subra served for seven years as vice-chair of the

Environmental Protection Agency A biophysical environment is a biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or population, and consequently includes the factors that have an influence in their survival, development, and evolution. A biophysical environment can vary in scale ...

's (EPA) National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology, for six years on the EPA's

National Environmental Justice Advisory Council The National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC), a federal advisory committee to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, was established September 30, 1993. The Council provides advice and recommendations about broad, cross- ...

, and for five years on the National Advisory Committee of the US Representative to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation. She appeared in the 2010 documentary

Gasland ''Gasland'' is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Josh Fox. It focuses on communities in the United States where natural gas drilling activity was a concern and, specifically, on hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), a method ...

Awards

*1999

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

*2004 Volvo for Life Award finalist *2011

Global Exchange Global Exchange was founded in 1988 and is an advocacy group, human rights organization, and a 501(c)(3) organization, based in San Francisco, California, United States. The group defines its mission as, "to promote human rights and social, ec ...

Human Rights Awards Honoree

Awards

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