Staff
Principal
Elizabeth McManus joined Ross and Associates after ten years with the Washington State Department of Ecology and the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC. She is an expert on hazardous and remediation waste management and clean up, particularly RCRA closure and the RCRA corrective action program. Elizabeth is a talented designer, convener, and facilitator of collaborative processes, routinely helping groups find common ground and define durable outcomes. At the national level, she has worked successfully with diverse stakeholder groups on projects related to Superfund reform, security practices, incentives, and measures for water and wastewater utilities, and creating and achieving a new national vision for waste prevention and management. At the local and regional level, she works with groups on brownfields program creation and assessment, innovative approaches to clean up, water allocation in the Columbia River, restoration of Puget Sound, and closure of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. She is a sought-after advisor to government and others on clean up and hazardous waste policy. Elizabeth’s experience working in both state and federal governments and in both policy development and in implementation gives her insight into the workings of government and the practical challenges that policy makers face.