renewable energy, solar power and distributed generation, energy efficiency, fossil fuel and nuclear power plants
Background
Ms. Del Chiaro directs Environment
California’s Clean Energy Program and serves as the primary contact for
energy issues. Since joining staff in 2002, Ms. Del Chiaro has been the
lead
advocate of the Million Solar Roofs campaign. She also helped lead the
Clean Energy L.A campaign, a successful coalition effort
to establish a 20% by 2017 renewable energy standard at the Los
Angeles Department of Water and Power. Ms. Del Chiaro advocates in
the state legislature, before the California Energy Commission and the
California Public Utilities Commission, and before municipal agencies
and
governments on clean energy issues. She's been quoted and published in
numerous
media outlets including MSNBC, NPR, The New
York Times, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, San Francisco
Chronicle, San Diego Union Tribune, San Jose Mercury News, and Bloomberg News.
Prior to joining Environment California’s staff,
Bernadette served as Organizing Director for the Toxics
Action Center
where she coordinated the successful campaign to clean up Connecticut's "Filthy Five" coal-fired power
plants. She remains on the Board of Directors for the Toxics Action
Center and is a former
Board Member of the New England Grassroots Environment Fund. In 1998, she
graduated from Green Corps, the field school for environmental organizing, and
from 1995-1996, Ms. Del Chiaro staffed the local campaign office to
stop the proposed Ward Valley nuclear waste dump in Needles, CA. Del
Chiaro holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Conservation and Resource Studies
from the University of California at Berkeley.
