BY STAFF REPORTS
Teresa Booeshaghi, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Deputy Director of the Division of Waste Management, announced this week she was moving to Washington D.C. to take a role with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Booeshaghi, in an email to staff, said she was taking a position at EPA as Deputy Assistant Administrator of Policy for the Office of Land and Emergency Management.
“Looking back on the years I have spent here, I am filled with immense gratitude for the opportunities I’ve had to learn, grow, and collaborate with such an incredible group of colleagues,” she wrote. “I am proud of what we have accomplished as a team, and I am confident that the organization will continue to thrive in the years to come.”
Booeshaghi has been with the Department for 24 years. According to her LinkedIn profile, she started in 2001 as an Environmental Specialist I, an entry level position, managing contracts and programs. She helped establish the Brownfield State Response Program.
Her experience at the department has been focused on waste issues, ranging from brownfields to Superfund sites, drycleaning contamination sites and other cleanup programs. She was Program Administrator for the Waste Cleanup program beginning in 2017, which rolled into her current role.
She begins her new role May 12.
She follows another former DEP official who moved to EPA under the Trump Administration. Jessica Kramer, former DEP Deputy Secretary of Regulatory Programs left Florida earlier this year to become EPA’s Assistant Administrator for Water.
