Sarah Vogel
Senior Vice President, Healthy Communities, Environmental Defense Fund
Expertise on:
Climate & Environment
Sarah is the Senior Vice President, Healthy Communities, at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). She joined EDF in 2012 and leads a team of scientists, attorneys and policy experts to protect health by reducing exposure to toxic chemicals and air pollution. In addition, Sarah co-leads Clean Air Catalyst, a USAID-supported clean air initiative with experts, governments and community leaders on the ground in Indore, India, Jakarta, Indonesia and Nairobi, Kenya.
Recent achievements of the program include: AirTracker technology global expansion, strong updates to U.S. chemical and air quality protections in 2024, bipartisan passage of major reforms to the nation’s chemical safety law in 2016; and leadership commitments by Walmart to reduce its chemical footprint in 2013 and 2017.
The current portfolio of work that Sarah oversees includes: defending strong implementation of the Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act; working with leading companies to reduce the use of hazardous chemicals along the supply chain; reducing lead exposures from drinking water and food; and catalyzing the use of hyperlocal air pollution information to drive innovative policy solutions for clean air.
