John Hall

John Hall is President of John Hall Public Affairs, a strategic consulting firm that assists businesses, local governments, nonprofit organizations and communities to forge solutions to environmental, water, climate and equity challenges.  He has been a thought leader and practitioner regarding the inter-relationships and impacts of transportation, energy, air quality, climate, public health and equity issues for the past thirty-five years. John lives in Austin,Texas. 

Prior to re-launching John Hall Public Affairs, John led Environmental Defense Fund’s clean energy energy program in Texas and nationally. He also is playing a key role in efforts to accelerate deployment of electric and other zero emission vehicles in Texas. Earlier in his life, John chaired the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC), the predecessor agency to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). His key accomplishments there were to merge together Texas’ environmental programs from several state agencies to form the TNRCC, create a framework to mange the Edwards Aquifer that was subsequently enacted into statute, established Texas’ first Task Force to identify and assess environmental justice issues, and developed and implemented  a set of pollution prevention initiatives that catalyzed major reductions in air toxics and hazardous waste in the state. He left a lasting mark on TCEQ by implementing the Mickey Leland Environmental Internship Program that has provided 2,500 Latino, African American and female college students early exposure to environmental issues and careers.

From 1996 to 2016, in the capacity of President of John Hall Public Affairs, John played a leadership role in leading Texas to effectively address ozone non-attainment challenges in the Houston-Galveston and Dallas-Ft.Worth metropolitan areas in collaboration with the Mayors and County Judges of these regions, TCEQ and the Environmental Protection Agency. John also facilitated Port Houston’s Bayport  Community Advisory Group and led the panel to develop a comprehensive set of environmental recommendations that were utilized in constructing and developing the Bayport Container Terminal.