James “Skip” Spensley

Mr. Spensley is a lawyer, operations research engineer and environmental policy and program consultant who has worked in the environmental and transportation fields since the early 1970’s. He has specialized in environmental issues and assessments, regulatory compliance and strategic planning with a focus on sustainability issues.

He worked with the President’s Council on Environmental Quality in the early 1970’s and as a consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during its early years. Mr. Spensley served as a professional staff member of the U.S. Congress House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology for six years in charge of subcommittees whose jurisdiction included research and development matters for the Environmental Protection Agency, renewable energy programs in the Department of Energy, and other matters for independent agencies with environmental responsibilities.

Mr. Spensley currently has an environmental consulting practice and serves as an adjunct professor in the Environmental Policy and Management graduate program at the University of Denver where he teaches two sustainability course and the University of Colorado at Denver in the School of Planning and Architecture where he teaches Environmental Law and Policy. He is the author of the NEPA Compliance Manual for federal managers and author of the NEPA Chapter in the National Environmental Law Handbook (Editions 12-20) for Government Institutes.