Former EPA Attorney Joins NC Environmental Defense

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Tatjana Vujic, 919-881-2916
Dan Whittle, 919-881-2914

(October 19, 2006 - Raleigh, NC) Tatjana Vujic, a former attorney with the US Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC, has joined the North Carolina office of Environmental Defense. Vujic will work with senior attorney Dan Whittle. She will focus on environmental policy and legal issues relating to conservation incentive programs and agriculture.

While at EPA, Vujic worked on enforcement of the federal Clean Air Act. Most recently, she served as a consultant to Environmental Defense on clean hog waste technologies and spearheaded a US Department of Agriculture grant that will fund development of byproducts and new markets for hog waste.

Vujic received a J.D. with honors from the George Washington University Law School and a B.A. from Yale University. From 2001 to 2002, Vujic served as a law clerk to the Honorable James C. Cacheris on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.