Mark Redsten provides vision and guidance to Clean Wisconsin’s growing team as they work to advance environmental policy with far-reaching impacts throughout Wisconsin and the Midwest. During his 25-year tenure, Redsten has led a staff that includes air and water policy experts, lawyers, scientists, government relations directors, communications professionals, and a development and outreach team.
Redsten helped transform the identity and work of the organization, changing its name from Wisconsin’s Environmental Decade to Clean Wisconsin, and ensures its continued focus on tangible and equitable outcomes for clean water and air, and for solutions to climate change in Wisconsin.
Under his leadership, the organization has been part of substantial clean air, water and energy victories. Notable examples include the passage of the Great Lakes Compact; policies that significantly reduce mercury pollution in Wisconsin; a PSC decision to deny the construction permit for a new coal plant on the Mississippi River; a legal settlement that created the Fund for Lake Michigan; and groundbreaking rules to reduce phosphorus pollution in Wisconsin’s waterways.
Redsten also chairs the boards of Cool Choices and the Fund for Lake Michigan, and serves on the Board of Advisors to UW Institute for Population Health.
Favorite things to do outdoors in Wisconsin: Canoeing down the lower Wisconsin River and camping along its shores.