Ted Sears is a Senior Project Leader in NREL's Market Transformation Center—Fuels, Vehicles, and Transportation Group. He is the task leader for EPAct tasks within the U.S. Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technologies Program. Before joining NREL, Ted was a senior environmental consultant with Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. Until recently, he served as a member of the Energy and Air Quality Advisory Committee of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Council. Before that, Ted served as a senior environmental consultant with The Technical Group, LLC; an adjunct faculty member of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Graduate School; and an attorney and senior associate editor at the Environmental Law Institute.