William G. Rosenberg

Biography
[EPA press release - May 5, 1989]

William G. Rosenberg was confirmed by the U.S. Senate yesterday to be Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

EPA Administrator William K. Reilly welcomed the confirmation, saying, "Bill Rosenberg has a broad background in government, energy and utilities, and it will serve the Bush Administration well as we go after one of our top priorities--a new Clean Air Act."

Rosenberg served as Assistant Administrator, Energy Resource Development, Federal Energy Administration, from 1975 to 1977. He was responsible for policy for gas and electric utilities and the coal, oil and gas industries, as well as coordination with other federal agencies on energy projects. He was a presidential appointee on the Project Independence Advisory Commission, established in 1974 to establish a national energy policy.

Rosenberg was chairman, from 1982 to 1989, of The Investment Group of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Washington, D.C., which is engaged in the acquisition, development and financing of income-producing real estate.

From 1977 to 1982, he was president of Rosenberg, Freeman and Associates, Ann Arbor, Mich., a real-estate development and syndication firm, specializing in low- and moderate-income housing development.

He was with the law firm of Honigman, Miller, Schwartz and Cohn in Detroit from 1965 to 1969.

Rosenberg is an alumnus of Syracuse University and holds a law degree and a master of business administration degree from Columbia University. He was born in New York City on Dec. 25, 1940, and resides on a farm in Chelsea, Mich., with his wife, MaryBeth, and three children, Seth, Laurence and Gabrielle.

William G. Rosenberg

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