EPA’s acting director of the grant-based land revitalization program has left the agency for the private sector.
Brian Thompson, who most recently served as the top official in the agency’s Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization, announced on LinkedIn he accepted a new job directing practice empowerment for the public sector at Relativity, a data management software company.
His move comes amid the Trump administration’s rollout of an agencywide reorganization that could put land remediations programs such as Brownfields toward the top of Administrator Lee Zeldin’s agenda, should he choose to follow the framework established in Trump 1.0.
Thompson spent the first half of his 15-year career at EPA as an attorney-adviser, later jumping to a role focused on data governance before taking helm of the Brownfields office last summer, according to his LinkedIn profile.
