Staff

Kimber WestKimber West
Acting Executive Director

V. John WhiteV. John White
Legislative Director

V. John White is the Legislative Director of the Clean Power Campaign (CPC) and co-founded the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies (CEERT) in 1990.

John served as a senior policy consultant to California State Assembly committees addressing air quality and transportation issues. In 1983, he left legislative staff work to establish an independent practice as a legislative advocate and political consultant, work that he continues today with public-interest environmental groups such as the Clean Power Campaign, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Environmental Defense. He also provides strategic advice and consulting for renewable energy companies and for state and local governmental agencies.

Over his 35-year career, John has been involved in the drafting, negotiation, and passage of landmark legislation and innovative regulatory programs that have accelerated progress in air quality, renewable energy sources, and global warming mitigation. These measures include the California Clean Air Act, the Carl Moyer diesel emission reduction incentive program, the California Global Warming Solutions Act, the Renewable Portfolio Standard, and the California Solar Initiative. In the last 12 years, John’s efforts have resulted in a $10 billion investment in energy conservation and renewable energy in California, and in the appropriation of significant funding for fuel cells, alternative transportation technologies, and the retrofitting and retirement of high-polluting school buses.

John currently serves on the boards of directors of the California League of Conservation Voters, the Renewable Northwest Project, and the Environmental Council of Sacramento. He is also on the steering committees of the Western Clean Energy Campaign and the Interwest Energy Alliance. From 1997-2000 he served on the Board of Governors of the California Independent System Operator, which manages the state’s electricity transmission grid, and from 1987-1991 he was a board member of the Sacramento AIDS Foundation.

John holds a B.A. from U.C. Riverside, where he majored in Political Science.