Kate Sinding

Position: 
Activist,policy analyst
Areas of Expertise: 
New York urban and regional issues, including a variety of solid waste, air quality and land use matters.

Kate Sinding is a senior attorney in NRDC's New York Urban Program. She started with NRDC in November 2006. Before that, she was in private practice at a small environmental law firm in New York City. As a member of the Urban Program, Kate works on a broad array of matters, some of which you wouldn�t even automatically think of as being urban, like pursuing legislation to require recycling of electronic waste (i.e., old TVs and computers); opposing the development of proposed massive casino complexes in the ecologically important Catskill Region, which is the source of the famed New York City drinking water supply; and reducing the number of unwanted catalogs that bombard most of us every day.