Carolyn Slaughter joined the Regulatory Affairs group within American Public Power Association, as the Director of Environmental Policy where she provides regulatory, advocacy, technical and compliance assistance to APPA members and staff on federal environmental policies, proposals and programs. Carolyn, beings more than 15 years' professional experience working on environmental and air quality policy issues. Most recently Carolyn was the Director of Strategic Planning for Marsulex Environmental Technologies, where she formulated strategies to improve marketing and business plans, analyzed, and monitored issues from a regulatory perspective that affected profitability, growth, and productivity of MET's core businesses as well as provided M&A valuation support. Prior to MET, she was the Senior Program Development Manager for the Institute of Clean Air Companies. While at ICAC, she developed outreach programs on emission control requirements, analyzed economic, legislative, regulatory and political trends.