Paul Gilman of Covanta Energy on Waste-To-Energy

One way in which major corporations are saving money these days is by not letting anything go to waste - including their trash. In this episode of On Paper, David Crew talks with Paul Gilman, Chief Sustainability Officer for Covanta Energy, about his company’s innovative waste-to-energy (WTE) process that provides electrical power to 30+ U.S. communities and an environmentally sound alternative to landfill dumping.

Paul Gilman joined Covanta Energy in 2008 as the company’s first Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer. He is responsible for Covanta’s safety, health and environmental compliance programs, and for sustainability initiatives that further reducing Covanta’s environmental impact while increasing the use of its technologies.

Before joining Covanta, Mr. Gilman was the Director of the Oak Ridge Center for Advanced Studies. He served as the Assistant Administrator for Research and Development and Science Advisor at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 2002 until 2004. Prior to joining EPA, he was Director for Policy Planning at Celera Genomics. Mr. Gilman was previously the Executive Director of life sciences and agriculture divisions of the National Research Council of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering. In addition, Mr. Gilman has held several senior government positions, including Associate Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Natural Resources, Energy, and Science, and Executive Assistant to the Secretary of Energy for technical matters. He has 13 years of experience working on the staff of the United States Senate in several capacities, including as a Congressional Science Fellow sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.