Environment Nevada Staff

Bernadette Del Chiaro is the western states regional director for Environment America. For the past ten years, Ms. Del Chiaro has been at the forefront of major environmental campaigns in the west to prevent the degradation of natural resources and transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy to clean energy. She's authored numerous reports and has been quoted in media outlets including MSNBC, NBC Nightly News, NPR, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press and Bloomberg News.

Prior to joining Environment America’s staff, Bernadette served as Organizing Director for the Toxics Action Center where she coordinated the successful campaign to clean up Connecticut's "Filthy Five" coal-fired power plants. She remains on the Board of Directors for the Toxics Action Center and is a former Board Member of the New England Grassroots Environment Fund. In 1998, Bernadette graduated from Green Corps, the field school for environmental organizing, and from 1995-1996, Ms. Del Chiaro staffed the local campaign office to stop the proposed Ward Valley nuclear waste dump along the Arizona, Nevada and California border. Del Chiaro holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Conservation and Resource Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. She was born and raised in Sonoma, California and now lives in Sacramento with her husband and two children.