Trey Glenn
Onis "Trey" Glenn III (born ) is the Southeast Region (Region 4) administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Glenn completed his bachelor's degree in civil engineering at Auburn University in 1994 and began working as a hydrologic engineer for Southern Company's Reservoir Management and Environmental Affairs group. He completed a master's in business administration at UAB in 1999. In 2001 he was appointed division director for the Alabama Office of Water Resources, a division of the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA).
In February 2005 Glenn was appointed director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) by the Alabama Environmental Management Commission. Bill Johnson, head of ADECA, filed a complaint with the Alabama Ethics Commission alleging that Glenn had violated state law in accepting travel gifts and in seeking his appointment to ADEM. In his previous position at the Office of Water Resources Glenn had traveled at the expense of and approved contracts with Malcolm Pirnie Scott, where AEMC chair Scott Phillips was a director. In April 2007 the Ethics Commission found probable cause to refer the matter to Montgomery County District Attorney Ellen Brooks for possible prosecution. She presented the case to a grand jury in January 2009. The grand jury found "no provable violations," of state law.
During his tenure at ADEM, Glenn touted his role in the passage of the state's Solid Waste and Recycling Act, the agency's efforts to clean up illegal dump sites, and his leadership in streamlining the department and putting more resources online.
Glenn resigned from ADEM in 2009 and began working as a consultant and lobbyist with Blue Ridge Consulting, working on contracts for the Business Council of Alabama, Strada Professional Services and A. G. Gaston Construction. In 2016 he also took on the role of Director of Client Development for Strada.
President Donald Trump appointed Glenn to his current role at the EPA in August 2017. In his financial disclosures to the United States, which he revised four times, Glenn listed consulting income of more than $5,000 each from Blue Ridge, Strada, the Birmingham Jefferson County Transit Authority, the City of Birmingham, Balch & Bingham, Big Sky Environmental, MAP Development, Matrix LLC, the City of Bessemer, Maynard Cooper & Gale, the Business Council of Alabama, Blue Ridge Partners, Black Mesa Energy and Conservatives with Courage. Blue Ridge Consulting paid a salary to Glenn's wife, and she was also paid out promissory notes from Blue Ridge and Strada in 2018 that each exceeded $100,000. He did not report any transactions or gifts.
Because he was a consultant to Balch & Bingham for consulting work on their "Drummond/ABC Coke project", Glenn was called to testify in the criminal trial of Joel Gilbert and Steven McKinney partners in the law firm and David Roberson, an executive with Drummond Company, who were charged with bribing Alabama State Representative Oliver Robinson to testify falsely before ADEM and the EPA and to use his office to advance Drummond's interest in opposition to the public.
References
- Rawls, Phillip (April 5, 2007) "Ethics commission rules against ADEM chief." Associated Press/Gadsden Times
- Kennedy, Joey (January 20, 2009) "Alabama's environmental director Trey Glenn escapes criminal charges." The Birmingham News
- "EPA Announces Appointment of Trey Glenn to Region 4 Administrator" (August 21, 2017) EPA Press Office
- Pillion, Dennis (August 22, 2017) "Controversial former Alabama environmental agency head named EPA Region 4 Administrator." The Birmingham News
External links
- Trey Glenn III at Linkedin.com