Lauraine Chestnut
Ms. Lauraine G. Chestnut is a managing economist at Stratus Consulting Inc. specializing in the quantification and monetary valuation of human health and environmental effects associated with environmental pollutants. She has an M.A. in economics from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Ms. Chestnut has over 20 years of experience with Stratus Consulting and its predecessors working for clients including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, California Air Resources Board, the National Park Service, Environment Canada, Health Canada, and The World Bank, quantifying and valuing the effects of air pollutants on including human health, visibility aesthetics, materials, and crops. She has conducted original economic and survey research to estimate the economic value to the public of protecting human health, visibility aesthetics, and cultural materials from the effects of air pollution; and has conducted epidemiology studies of the effects of particulate matter on human health. She has developed quantification models to estimate the benefits of reductions in air pollutants that have been used to assess provisions of the Clean Air Act in the U.S., proposed Canadian air quality standards, air quality standards in Bangkok, and elsewhere. Ms. Chestnut has numerous publications on these topics in peer reviewed journals including Journal of Environmental Management, Archives of Environmental Health, Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, and Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Ms. Chestnut is currently serving on the U.S. EPA, Clean Air Science Advisory Committee, NOx and SOx Secondary NAAQS Review Panel. She served in 2007-2008 on the National Research Council Committee on Mortality Risk Reduction Benefits from Decreasing Tropospheric Ozone Exposure. She also served on the U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board, Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis and on the California Air Quality Advisory Committee. She was elected to the Board of Directors of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists