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MI ENVIRONMENT
Fast Five with Abigail Hendershott, new MPART executive director
Date: April 07, 2021
(Abigail Hendershott, new Michigan PFAS Action Response Team (MPART) executive director, joins MI Environment for this Fast Five edition. The MPART executive director oversees the State s coordinated effort to address the threat of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination. The executive director serves as the chair of the MPART and coordinates closely with various federal and state agencies on PFAS initiatives.)
How long have you worked at EGLE? And what is your background?
I have a Bachelor of Science in resource development from the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University. I started working at the then DNR - now EGLE, as a student in 1989 for the Act 307 Section scoring sites of environmental contamination.
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MPART Executive Director Steve Sliver to retire after 34 years of state service
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) today announced that Michigan PFAS Action Response Team (MPART) executive director Steve Sliver will retire after 34 years of service to the State of Michigan.
Sliver has been EGLE’s senior representative on MPART since April 2018 and was named executive director in 2019 when Gov. Whitmer established MPART as a permanent advisory body within EGLE under Executive Order 2019-3.
Under Sliver’s leadership, MPART has been widely recognized as a national leader in the response to PFAS contamination in drinking water. Notable accomplishments of the multi-agency taskforce include the nation’s first statewide testing of public water supplies and schools for PFAS, the establishment of some of the nation’s most comprehensive PFAS in drinking water standards and the country’s largest collection and disposa