ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jack Doyle is director of J.D. Associates, a Washington, DC consulting and investigative research firm specializing in environmental and business issues. He has been writing about technology, business, and the environment for more than 20 years.  Publisher’s Weekly called his June 2000 book on the US auto industry, Taken for a Ride: Detroit’s Big Three and the Politics of Pollution, “a valuable source for…partisans on all sides of the debate.” At Friends of the Earth in the 1990s, Doyle wrote Crude Awakening, a book on the US oil industry, and Hold the Applause!, a critique of DuPont’s “corporate environmentalism.”  A 1985 book on agricultural biotechnology, Altered Harvest (Viking-Penguin), is regarded as a pioneering work on the subject.  In the 1970s, working as a lobbyist and policy analyst at the Environmental Policy Institute, Doyle wrote reports on the coal mining industry that helped move strip mining legislation in Congress.  Lines Across the Land, a 1979 expose of the US rural electric cooperative system, was used by liberals and conservatives to push reforms at the Rural Electrification Administration.  Doyle’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsday, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, San Francisco Chronicle and other newspapers and journals.  He has consulted with various public agencies and private clients, including the President’s Council on Environmental Quality, the former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, the AFL-CIO, several national environmental organizations, and a few Fortune 500 companies. He has also appeared as an expert witness before US Congressional committees and has served on the board of the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies in Boston. He holds degrees from Millersville University and the Pennsylvania State University.