She was a member of the legal team representing Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) which was named «Attorneys of the Year» for Environmental Law in 2001 by California Lawyer (Daily Journal Corp.) for the resolution of a precedent - setting case
requiring major oil companies to clean up more than a thousand sites contaminated by the gasoline additive MTBE.
Congress's ethanol mandate, which
requires oil companies to use 36 billion gallons of ethanol by 2020, can not be achieved, experts say, without
major technological advances that are still years away.