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Jay H. Lehr is a Geological Engineer and the science director at the Heartland Institute. He has written 19 books and over 900 journal articles. He has testified before Congress 36 times on environmental issues. He helped form almost all the environmental legislation of the 1970s.
Lehr earned a degree in Geological Engineering from Princeton when he was 20 years old. After graduating he joined the U.S. Navy’s Civil Engineering Corps, eventually rising to the rank of Lt. Commander. He was briefly with the U.S. Geological Survey before earning a Ph.D from the University of Arizona. While this was technically in Groundwater Hydrology, this was one of the nation’s first Ph.D.’s more commonly refereed to today as Environmental Science mixing seven different departments which all touched on environmental issues. After graduating he taught at the University of Arizona and The Ohio State University.
For 25 years, Lehr was the executive director of the National Association of Groundwater Scientists and Engineers. In this role he helped advocate and form the EPA and had a hand in helping write the Water Pollution Control Act (which later became the Clean Water Act), the Clean Air Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (which dealt with waste disposal), the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Federal Insecticide, Rodenticide and Fungicide Act (FIRFA), the Superfund, and the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act. It was also during this time that he started writing a total of 19 books and over 900 journal articles on the environmental sciences. He was editor of the Journal of Ground Water for 27 years, Co-editor of Ground Water Monitoring Review for 11 years and editor of the Water Well Journal for 25 years.
Dr. Lehr is currently the science director with The Heartland Institute where he has worked for the past 20 years. He is also president of Environmental Education Enterprises, which teaches advanced technology short courses for environmental professionals.
In 2008 he was named chief hydro-geologist for Earth Water Global (EWG) corporation, one of the world’s largest providers of water supply projects.
In 1988, the EPA had contracted with the National Water Well Association ("NWWA") to provide a Drastic mapping system to identify ground water vulnerability. According to Lehr, he found $29,000 in time that had not been charged by other engineers as such he asked the controller to adjust the time appropriately. According to NWWA, "In an effort to receive payment for services that they felt had been rendered" Lehr "apparently modified employee time sheets and submitted them to the EPA for payment," be he did not personally benefit from his actions. He was advised by NWWA and plead guilty to a charge of signing a document he knew to be incorrect (the employee time sheets). He was told by NWWA that it would likely result in community service and he could keep his job, but that was incorrect. He was sentenced to 6 months in prison (served 3 months) and was fired.
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Jay H. Lehr is a Geological Engineer and the science director at the Heartland Institute. He has written 19 books and over 900 journal articles. He has testified before Congress 36 times on environmental issues. He helped form almost all the environmental legislation of the 1970s.
Lehr earned a degree in Geological Engineering from Princeton when he was 20 years old. After graduating he joined the U.S. Navy’s Civil Engineering Corps, eventually rising to the rank of Lt. Commander. He was briefly with the U.S. Geological Survey before earning a Ph.D from the University of Arizona. While this was technically in Groundwater Hydrology, this was one of the nation’s first Ph.D.’s more commonly refereed to today as Environmental Science mixing seven different departments which all touched on environmental issues. After graduating he taught at the University of Arizona and The Ohio State University.
For 25 years, Lehr was the executive director of the National Association of Groundwater Scientists and Engineers. In this role he helped advocate and form the EPA and had a hand in helping write the Water Pollution Control Act (which later became the Clean Water Act), the Clean Air Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (which dealt with waste disposal), the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Federal Insecticide, Rodenticide and Fungicide Act (FIRFA), the Superfund, and the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act. It was also during this time that he started writing a total of 19 books and over 900 journal articles on the environmental sciences. He was editor of the Journal of Ground Water for 27 years, Co-editor of Ground Water Monitoring Review for 11 years and editor of the Water Well Journal for 25 years.
Dr. Lehr is currently the science director with The Heartland Institute where he has worked for the past 20 years. He is also president of Environmental Education Enterprises, which teaches advanced technology short courses for environmental professionals.
In 2008 he was named chief hydro-geologist for Earth Water Global (EWG) corporation, one of the world’s largest providers of water supply projects.
In 1988, the EPA had contracted with the National Water Well Association ("NWWA") to provide a Drastic mapping system to identify ground water vulnerability. According to Lehr, he found $29,000 in time that had not been charged by other engineers as such he asked the controller to adjust the time appropriately. According to NWWA, "In an effort to receive payment for services that they felt had been rendered" Lehr "apparently modified employee time sheets and submitted them to the EPA for payment," be he did not personally benefit from his actions. He was advised by NWWA and plead guilty to a charge of signing a document he knew to be incorrect (the employee time sheets). He was told by NWWA that it would likely result in community service and he could keep his job, but that was incorrect. He was sentenced to 6 months in prison (served 3 months) and was fired.