Obama’s oil spill commission includes former EPA chief, Harvard dean, ex-Fla.-senator

Look at members of Obama’s oil spill commission

Members of the presidential commission investigating the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

—Co-chairman: Former Democratic Sen. and Gov. Bob Graham of Florida. He often has pushed for a drilling ban off the Florida coast.

—Co-chairman: William K. Reilly, Environmental Protection Agency administrator under President George H.W. Bush and during the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska in 1989.

—Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

—Donald Boesch, president of the University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Science.

—Terry Garcia, a National Geographic Society executive and former chief lawyer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under President Bill Clinton.

—Cherry Murray, dean of Harvard’s engineering school and former president of the American Physical Society.

—Frances Ulmer, chancellor of the University of Alaska, Anchorage, and former Democratic lieutenant governor of Alaska.

Online:

White House announcement on commissioners: tinyurl.com/25g39t4