Gene Trisko is an attorney who represents labor and industry clients in energy and environmental matters.

Mr. Trisko has a B.A. in economics from New York University (1972) and a J.D. degree from Georgetown University Law Center (1977). He is admitted in the District of Columbia, and has appeared several times before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in matters concerning the Clean Air Act.

Mr. Trisko was active in the reauthorization of the Clean Air Act in 1990, and is the author of more than twenty articles published in economic, environmental, and law journals. In 1989, he helped the UMWA to negotiate the Mitchell-Trumka acid rain compromise agreement, between the United Mine Workers and Senator George Mitchell of Maine.

Mr. Trisko also has participated as an NGO on behalf of the United Mine Workers in all United Nations climate change negotiating sessions subsequent to the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. He is a member of EPA’s Clean Air Act Advisory Committee, and EPA’s working group on mercury control technologies. In 2000 and again in 2004, Mr. Trisko was appointed by the Department of State to represent U.S. industry in bilateral negotiations with Canada on air quality control.