Following his victory in the historic 2003 California recall election, Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger tapped Tamminen, a lifelong Democrat, to run the California EPA. Tamminen, now 55, came recommended via Schwarzenegger's brother-in-law Robert Kennedy Jr., who knew Tamminen from his Riverkeeper-esque battle to clean up industrial pollution in L.A.'s Santa Monica Bay. Before long, Tamminen joined the Austrian Oak's cabinet and became the primary architect of the state's groundbreaking legislation on climate change."Terry's a total visionary,"… more
