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Michael E. White works as a consultant on special projects with Winters Bros. Waste Systems of Long Island, LLC, recently acquired by Waste Management. Prior to coming to Winters Bros. Michael was Director of Government Affairs for Tunnel Hill Partners LLC. Michael is an attorney and has concentrated his law practice in the areas of environmental law, solid waste, municipal law, land use, natural resources and freight railtransportation. Michael is the President and owner of L I Strategies, Inc., an environmental planning consulting firm.

Michael serves as a Vice Chair of the Long Island Regional Planning Council and was previously the Executive Director of the Council. Prior to that appointment he was a partner in the firm of Jaspan Schlesinger Hoffman LLP heading the Environmental Law Practice Group and part of the Municipal Law Practice Group.

Michael is on the Board of Governors of New York Sea Grant, an Adjunct Faculty inEnvironmental Management for the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences ofStony Brook University, Interim Director of the Waste Reduction and Management Institute at SoMAS and Principal Investigator on a grant from New York State to provide regional solid waste management for Long Island. Michael serves on the Long Island Commission on Aquifer Protection and the Steering Committee for the Long Island Sound Tidal Energy Project. Michael was a Commissioner on the Blue-RibbonCommission on Sustainability and the MTA. Michael is the recipient of the Touro College Law Center Pro Bono Attorney of the year in 2004, the Old Westbury College Foundation Theodore Roosevelt Preservation Award in 2005, Co- Honoree with his wife Judy of the Cornell Cooperative Extension in 2008 and named Educator / ProfessionalEnvironmentalist of the Year by the 2014 Stony Brook University EarthStock Program.

Prior to joining JSH LLP, Michael was managing partner of White & Kretzing P.C., which merged with JSH in 2002.  He is admitted to practice in the Courts of New York, the Eastern and Southern District Federal Courts of N. Y., the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Court of Federal Claims and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. He received his Juris Doctorate from Touro College Law Center and has degrees in Environmental Studies and Earth and Space Sciences, with graduate studies in Marine Sciences at Stony Brook University.  Prior to his legal career, Michael served as an environmental planner in the Department of Environmental Control of the Town of Huntington, and then as Director of that Department, was an environmental consultant in the private sector, worked in the Environmental Monitoring Division of the Suffolk County Department of Environmental Control and then with the Suffolk County Department of Health Services Water Quality and Drinking Water Supply Bureau and was a research scientist at the Marine Sciences Research Center of Stony Brook University. He is a former Chair of the Environmental Law Committee of the Suffolk County Bar Association as well as a former member of the Board of the Suffolk County Water Authority, the Long Island Regional Planning Board 208 Technical Advisory Committee and the Long Island Regional Ashfill Board.