I just returned from a Water Board meeting where I received independent corroboration of a tip that I received on Wednesday: Emily Lloyd, Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection, has indeed resigned.
Lloyd became DEP Commissioner back in 2005. Prior to that she had been Commissioner of the Department of Sanitation, director of business development at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and commissioner of traffic and parking for the city of Boston.
In the private sector, she had been executive vice president for government and community affairs and for administration at Columbia University. She leaves the DEP to go back into the private sector; she’s been hired by Trinity Real Estate either as a CEO (the New York Daily News reports) or as a COO (the New York Observer Reports).
(UPDATE 1/29/09: Recently approved Water Board minutes confirm that Lloyd has taken the position of Chief Operating Officer, as the New York Observer has reported.)
There is no indication that she was forced out of her position.
As all this is going on, the DEP’s Deputy Commissioner, Steve Lawitts, is biking through Amsterdam.
Water Watch NYC 
February 21, 2013 at 8:17 am
I didn’y know of your interest in music. Intrigued by your dpercistion of Singers Glen as the love child of Ashokan Farewell’ and The Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ I hope you have an opportunity to get up to Cape Breton some time to sample the music up there which is a mixture of traditional music and modern versions of same.
February 26, 2013 at 5:38 am
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