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 Max Power served for 17 years in the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Nuclear Waste Program. He was a Washington State representative to the National Governors’ Association Mixed Waste Task Force and the US Department of Energy’s State and Tribal Government Working Group. Power was instrumental in the formation of the Hanford Advisory Board and supported the work of the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project’s Technical Steering Panel.
In 1992, Power represented the State of Washington’s interest in the formation of the Hanford Joint Council, bringing his expertise and state support to the establishment of the body and its alternative dispute resolution process for employees with significant concerns involving health, safety, and environmental issues.
His other professional work includes service as principal staff member for Washington’s Joint Legislative Committee on Science and Technology, as a policy analyst for the Seattle City Council, and as a division director at the Puget Sound Council of Governments. Power holds degrees in political science from The Colorado College, Oxford University, and Yale. He currently is retired from state government and resides in Oregon.
He is the author of America’s Nuclear Wastelands: Politics, Accountability, and Cleanup, published in 2008 by Washington State University Press.
Correspondence to Council Members may be directed through the Council.
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