Mike Boots

Michael Boots is a former government official who served as Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality during part of Barack Obama's presidency.[1][2][3][4] He served in the position from February 2014 – March 2015.

Mike Boots, President's Environmental Youth Award (PEYA) winner / EPA intern Apoorva Rangan, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, PEYA winner May Wang, PEYA award winner Deepika Kurup, and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director John Holdren before the PEYA awards ceremony
Mike Boots speaks at a conference on nutrient trading
Mike Boots and community leaders at the Point Arena-Stornetta designation ceremony

Boots grew up in Los Angeles[5] and graduated with an M.P.A. from the Maxwell School of Public Affairs at Syracuse University and received a B.A. in Communications from the University of California Los Angeles.[2] Before joining the Obama administration's Council on Environmental Quality as a staffer at the beginning of the new administration's time in office he worked at environmental advocacy group SeaWeb.[5]

References
  1. Cama, Timothy (11 March 2015). "Obama names new head of White House environmental council". Thehill.com.
  2. "Mike Boots". Obamawhitehouse.archive3s.gov. 2014-08-14.
  3. Eilperin, Juliet (January 13, 2015). "Mike Boots, one of Obama’s top environmental advisers, to leave in March". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 4, 2018. States that Boots "served as the Council on Environmental Quality's acting head since February 2014"
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-10-27. Retrieved 2018-10-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "White House: Boots on the ground at CEQ". Eenews.net.
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