Natural Resource Initiatives
L. Preston Bryant, Jr., serves as Secretary of Natural Resources in the cabinet of Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine. The Secretary of Natural Resources advises the Governor on natural resources issues and oversees the major state agencies that protect and restore the Commonwealth’s natural and historic resources.
He is also responsible for advancing the Governor’s top environmental priorities, such as the Governor’s Commission on Climate Change, the Chesapeake 2000 Agreement, Virginia’s Water Cleanup Plan, Virginia Water Quality and Quantity planning, the Virginia Energy Plan, the 400,000 acre Virginia Land Conservation Plan, and more.
Prior to joining Governor Kaine’s cabinet, Secretary Bryant served in the Virginia House of Delegates for 10 years, where he sponsored landmark legislation to help preserve more than one million acres of nontidal wetlands, streamline the state’s stormwater management programs, and create a nutrient credit trading program to advance upgrades to more than a hundred wastewater treatment facilities that discharge into Virginia waters.
Secretary Bryant will be providing an overview of what has been accomplished during the Kaine Administration what he and Gov Kaine hope to accomplish before the end of his term.