About Robert Spiegel, Executive Director
| Robert Spiegel is the executive director of the non-profit Edison Wetlands Association (EWA), which has produced WildNewJersey.tv since Fall 2008. As EWA’s founder, Mr. Spiegel has worked since 1989 to protect human health and the environment in the Lower Raritan River Watershed of central New Jersey, one of the most densely populated and highly polluted areas in the nation. Mr. Spiegel takes leadership roles in major state issues such as environmental justice, Brownfields-to-Greenfields redevelopment, open space preservation, and public health. He also led EWA in saving and restoring the last remaining farm in the Edison area, the Triple C Ranch and Nature Center. Mr. Spiegel has testified three times before the U.S. Senate on the federal Superfund issue, and before Senate staff and the National Academy of Sciences in 2005 about indoor air pollution. His work with EWA has been profiled in Molly Ivins’ 2003 national bestseller, Bushwhacked, the 2004 Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation book, H2O: Highlands to Ocean, and the 2006-07 Dodge Biennial Report, In Pursuit of Sustainability. He has also been featured in media such as the New York Times, Time Magazine, Nightline, CNN, Newsday, NBC Nightly News, National Public Radio, Associated Press, Mother Jones, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Los Angeles Times, and online media such as International Herald Tribune, USA Today, Newsweek and Forbes. |  |
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