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Brown Appoints New Director For Oil And Gas Watchdog Agency

Ezra David Romero
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Valley Public Radio
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Governor Jerry Brown has appointed a new person to head the regulatory agency in charge of oil and gas extraction in California. David Bunn will head the Department of Conservation, replacing former director Mark Nechodom who resigned earlier this month.

The department has been at the center of intense scrutiny over its regulatory oversight on everything from fracking to the illegal injection of oilfield wastewater water into federally protected aquifers.

Bunn is currently associate director of the Office of International Programs at the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. From 1999 to 2003 he was the deputy director of the California Department of Fish and Game.

Joe Moore is the President and General Manager of KVPR / Valley Public Radio. He has led the station through major programming changes, the launch of KVPR Classical and the COVID-19 pandemic. Under his leadership the station was named California Non-Profit of the Year by Senator Melissa Hurtado (2019), and won a National Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting (2022).