The Observer, May 2005
Dan Lawn, center, and Jerry Brookman, right, received awards from the council for their long service to the cause of environmental safety in crude oil transportation. Brookman has served on the council’s Oil Spill Prevention/Response Committee for ten years, and was chairman for nine of those years. Lawn retired in February from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation after almost 28 years on the job. He started a month after the first oil flowed through the trans-Alaska pipeline in 1977, was one of the first regulators on scene the night the Exxon Valdez hit Bligh Reef, and played a key role in oversight of the pipeline, the Valdez oil terminal, and the tankers that use it. Executive Director John Devens, left, presented the awards at the council’s March board meeting in Anchorage. Photo by Stan Jones.