Director Government Affairs

Doug Farquhar is an attorney with 30 years experience working with policy makers on environmental health issues. Primarily working with state legislatures, he has testified 60 times before legislative committees in 36 states, in addition to consulting with state agency staff in every state on enlightening state policy makers.

In April 2020, he began as the director of Government Affairs for the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) in Denver, CO.

Prior to coming to NEHA, Doug directed the environmental health program for the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). He has worked in the Texas House of Representatives for the Natural Resources and Appropriations Committees and for Congressman Schaefer on Capitol Hill in Washington. He received his law degree from the University of Denver (DU) and undergraduate from the University of Texas in Austin. He is adjunct professor in the DU graduate school of Environmental Policy and Management and is an affiliate professor at the University of Washington School of Public Health.