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Robert Hoyt
Principal, Montgomery County
Robert G. Hoyt
Robert G. Hoyt serves as the Director of the Department of Environmental Protection in Montgomery County, Maryland. He oversees four divisions comprising solid waste management, watershed management, and environmental policy and compliance, and water and wastewater management with a combined budget of approximately $120 million. He co-chairs the Sustainability Working Group, which has broad representation from among the community, businesses, and other interest groups and drafted the County's Climate Protection Plan. He leads the coordinated response to the state of Maryland-issued municipal separate stormwater permit that covers runoff in most of the County including all public school property. He represents the County at regional water and sewer utilities and commissions. He is responsible for County programs and legislative initiatives on energy, air quality, noise, climate change, litter, streams/watersheds, stormwater and more than a dozen other areas that impact the environment.
Before serving in local government, Hoyt formerly served as Assistant Secretary of the Maryland Department of the Environment. In 2001, Hoyt co-founded the EcoLogix Group, Inc., which provided environmental policy guidance to clients including government agencies, businesses and environmental organizations.
Previously, Mr. Hoyt was Senior Vice President for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, where he developed and oversaw the Strategic Plan. He was also a Deputy Attorney General for the New Jersey Division of Law. He has 10 years of combined experience practicing and teaching environmental law. He has taught at the University of Maryland's School of Law and the Widener University School of Law.
Hoyt earned a B.A. in Political Science from Princeton University and a Juris Doctorate from Rutgers University.