Carl Bausch

Carl Bausch is an attorney and Deputy Director for Environmental Analysis & Documentation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where he manages an environmental impact unit. He managed an environmental impact assessment unit at the previous Interstate Commerce Commission, and in 1989 was Assistant General Counsel at the President's Council on Environmental Quality.

Bausch's interest in environmental quality as a public policy issue coincided with the rise of the modern environmental movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. "It wasn't until I was discharged from the service in 1968 that I began to realize our collective relationship with various elements of the environment left something to be desired. I asked myself to what extent I might be contributing to environmental degradation. I came to understand that a lot of the publicized incidents of pollution didn't just happen overnight; rather, they were the result of small--at times, imperceptible--but steady environmental insults that, over time, accumulated until, like the Cuyahoga River, they literally exploded in our faces." Bausch's primary areas of expertise are the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, the Coastal Zone Management Act, and section 404 (wetlands) permitting.

"I have found the students enrolled in the Environmental Sciences and Policy curriculum to be knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and dedicated to preserving a high-quality environment for humankind. We tend to teach the more practical side of environmental policy and policymaking, something to which the students respond inquisitively and quite positively. We have discovered that each student, based on her or his education and experience, has much to contribute to the class, including the instructors, which usually leads to lively discussions and debates on all major environmental issues considered in the course."

Bausch team teaches Environmental Policymaking and Policy Analysis and Environmental Impact Assessment in the Master of Science in Environmental Sciences and Policy program. He has taken a leading role in developing and offering online courses in the Environmental Sciences and Policy program.

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