Members of the Alabama Environmental Management Commission appointed Edward Poolos as the new Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) director at their meeting on Friday.
The finalists for the job were Anthony Scott Hughes, David Perry, Edward Poolos and James Mike Thornton. The finalists were interviewed at the Friday commission meeting and Poolos was hired after the commission came back from an executive session.
“It was a very tough decision. Every candidate that spoke here today had positives and had support in that room and belief that each could do the job but at the end of the day we had to make a decision. It was a tough decision and finally we came to a consensus as to making a tough decision,” H. Lanier Brown II, a commission member, said at the meeting.
According to his LinkedIn, Poolos has been the deputy commissioner at the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources since October 2017. He previously worked at the Alabama Department of Environmental Management as an environmental scientist, environmental manager, and the Decatur branch manager.
Former ADEM director Lance LeFleur announced he would retire in December, effective May 1. LeFleur had been the director of ADEM since May 2010.
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