Our guests this week will be Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming and Group for the East End's Bob DeLuca.

Bridget's primary policy initiatives focus on protecting and preserving  the natural environment, and particularly water quality, public health,  and responsible economic development.

Bridget was a leader in the working group that drafted the first  Sanitary Code Revisions in 30 years to allow nitrogen removing systems  to replace outdated on-site septic systems that leach nitrogen to  groundwater and surface water, leading to brown tides, fish kills and  diminishing shell fish and fin fish harvests. 

Bridget worked for almost a decade as an Assistant District Attorney  in the office of legendary District Attorney Robert Morgenthau in  Manhattan, where she served as a member of a Trial Bureau and the Sex  Crimes Prosecution Unit, and later as Chief of a Unit devoted to  attacking fraud in public programs.

Bob DeLuca has served as President and CEO of Group for the East End  since 1992.  Prior to joining the Group, Bob worked as both a Biologist  and Senior Environmental Analyst with the Suffolk County Office of  Ecology and taught environmental advocacy and policy as an adjunct  professor for Long Island University, Southampton, for over 15 years.  Bob began his career with the Group in the mid-1980s as an Environmental  Analyst. In this role, Bob developed the Group’s first environmental  outings and community education programs.