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Margo T. Oge

Distinguished Fellow, Transportation

    Margo T. Oge is the former Director of the Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ) at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, a position that culminated a 32-year career with the EPA. During her 18-year tenure as Director of OTAQ, Margo Oge was the chief architect of the most important achievements in the history of air pollution control in the U.S. transportation sector. These included programs that reduced emissions from gasoline and diesel-fueled automobiles, trucks, buses, and off-road vehicles by up to 99 percent. She led the EPA’s development of the first-ever national greenhouse gas emission standards for cars and heavy-duty trucks, helped establish the Renewable Fuels Standard, and was instrumental in establishing the United Nations process on global harmonization of transportation emissions standards, worldwide. She is a member of the Volkswagen Group’s International Sustainability Council and the Chair of the board of the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). She also serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the board of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), and as a member of the Advisory Committee of the US Global Change Research Program. She is the author of “Driving the Future: Combating Climate Change with Clean Cars” and is a contributor to Forbes. She has also published extensively, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Fortune, Time and Huffington Post.