Peter H. Murchie
Senior Director of Policy
Email: peter.murchie@environmentalprotectionnetwork.org
At EPN, Peter Murchie (he/him) is the Senior Director for Policy leading the Public Affairs and Policy teams and initiatives including Save EPA and Civil Service Resilience.
Peter has 30 years as a public sector leader focused on collaborative governance solutions for complex environmental health challenges. Peter has degrees in Public Health and in Natural Resource Science and Policy from the University of Michigan.
Peter worked at the World Health Organization and United Nations to support better water resource governance regimes for environmental health, led high priority climate change and clean energy initiatives and has led nonprofit boards for local education and international programs to empower communities through water and energy projects.
Most of his career has been with the U.S. EPA working in leadership and management roles including co-founding the West Coast Collaborative (improving air quality with a focus on diesel emissions), leading the Making a Visible Difference in Communities Initiative, developing and advising on Region 10’s climate and sustainability efforts, and managing the Community Involvement and Environmental Justice programs and the Grants and Interagency Agreements programs.
Most recently, Peter was the management lead for the U.S. EPA Puget Sound National Program Office Branch that focuses on watershed health for the Puget Sound and Columbia River Basins with hundreds of partner organizations working together to recover two of the most important ecosystems in the United States. In that role he built and maintained relationships with congressional leadership, state and local government elected officials, tribal leaders, state and federal agency leaders, and NGO and community-based organizations. Peter was instrumental in the growth of these watershed programs – from $30M to over $100M annually – and the passing and implementation of two new statutory programs for EPA–the Puget Sound Recovery National Program Office and the Columbia River Basin Restoration Program–authorized by rare amendments to the Clean Water Act.
He lives in Washington State.