Attorney General Eric Holder Welcomes Ignacia S. Moreno as Assistant Attorney
General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Attorney General Eric Holder
today welcomed the confirmation of Ignacia S. Moreno as the new Assistant
Attorney General for the Justice Department's Environment and Natural
Resources Division. Moreno was confirmed by the U.S. Senate late yesterday.
"I am pleased to welcome Ignacia back to the Department and the Environment
and Natural Resources Division," said Attorney General Holder. "Reinvigorating
the traditional missions of the Justice Department, including protecting our
nation's environment, has been one of my top priorities since taking office.
Ignacia is a talented and experienced attorney who will bring strong
leadership to this important division. I hope for rapid consideration of the
other Justice Department nominees pending before the Senate."
The Environment and Natural Resources Division handles litigation under more
than 150 federal statutes, such as the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
(Superfund), the Endangered Species Act, and the National Environmental Policy
Act.
The Division's work includes affirmative civil suits to stop polluters and
recover clean-up costs, prosecution of environmental and wildlife crimes,
defense of federal agencies and their programs, including management of
federal lands and other natural resources, defense of federal environmental
regulations, litigation relating to tribes and Indian lands, and condemnation
of land for congressionally authorized public use. The Division was created on
Nov. 16, 1909, by Attorney General George Wickersham through a two-page order
creating "The Public Lands Division." It celebrates its 100th anniversary in
less than a month.
Moreno returns to the Environment and Natural Resources Division where she
served from January 1994 until January 2001 as Special Assistant and then as
Counsel and Principal Counsel to the Division's Assistant Attorney General.
Since September 2006, Moreno has been an in-house counsel at the General
Electric Company.
SOURCE U.S. Department of Justice
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