Voltaggio’s career with the EPA, entails 36 years of comprehensive experience in multiple aspects of environmental management at the federal level, including executive level leadership, scientific and technical management, budgeting and analysis, enforcement and compliance, biological and chemical environmental emergency response, homeland security terrorism response processes and operations and information management and technology.
Voltaggio brought about dozens of resolutions of complex environmental issues in air, water and hazardous waste fields with major corporations, state, local and federal governments through the use of detailed and profound knowledge of environmental programs and a well-developed skill in persuading environmental dispute resolution. In addition to the cleanup programs in the US, Voltaggio also assisted countries including Italy, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, India, Japan, Taiwan, South Africa and China.
Voltaggio managed the nation’s biochemical terrorism response when EPA was called upon to cleanup the Anthrax contamination on Capitol Hill in the fall of 2001; interacting on a daily basis with the highest levels of Agency and Congressional leadership. As a result of his leadership in responding to the Anthrax cleanup, Voltaggio became the leading regional spokesperson for homeland security at EPA. He was also deployed to New Orleans as EPA’s senior federal official at the national response to Hurricane Katrina.
In 2006, Voltaggio founded an independent consulting firm, Voltaggio Consulting, LLC, where he consults various companies with domestic or international environmental and homeland security problems. He was also appointed by Governor Jon Corzine to the New Jersey Tidelands Resource Council. Voltaggio has a bachelor in chemical engineering from City College of New York, New York and masters in management science from Texas Christian University, Forth Worth, Texas.
“We are extremely pleased to have such a distinguished member join our Scientific Advisory Board,” said President and chief executive officer of BioNeutral, Stephen J. Browand. “Tom’s years of experience as Deputy Director of the EPA, in conjunction with his hands on field experience in dealing with a live weapons grade Anthrax attack on US soil will provide us with the insight very few people have in the application of our unique life saving technologies.”
