Environmental Leadership Program

Steve Adams manages the National Climate Preparedness Program and provides assistance and insight to policy makers and practitioners and in federal, state, and local government agencies across the country.

Steve has more than fifteen years of public policy experience in climate change, energy, environment and natural resource management issues. He most recently served in the administration of Florida Governor Charlie Crist where he directed energy and global climate change policy development and managed the staff of the state’s Energy and Climate Commission and the Governor’s Action Team on Energy and Climate Change.  Previously, he served as Director of Planning and Strategic Projects for Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection where he played key roles in developing the 2006 Energy Bill (SB 888) and the landmark 2008 Florida Energy and Climate Bill (HB 7135). In 2002-2003, he served at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as Senior Advisor to Administrator Christie Todd Whitman’s Environmental Indicators Initiative, an effort that resulted in the publication of EPA’s first national assessment of environmental and human health using environmental indicators. 

Steve holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of West Florida and a Master of Public Administration from the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at the Florida State University.