Dereth Glance
Deputy Commissioner
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC)
Dereth Glance is the Deputy Commissioner for Environmental Remediation and Material Management for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Formerly, Glance served as the Executive Director for Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency (OCRRA). Prior to that, Glance was appointed by President Obama to serve as a U.S. Commissioner at the International Joint Commission (IJC) charged with preventing and resolving disputes and promoting cooperation for the shared waters of the United States and Canada. Previously, she served as the Executive Program Director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment (CCE), directing water, energy and waste reduction programs for five regional offices in New York and Connecticut. She also chaired the Citizen Participation Working Group for the Onondaga Lakes Bottom Subsite of the Onondaga Lake Superfund Site, chaired the OCRRA recycling committee and has served on New York State’s Great Lakes Basin Advisory Council, the Clean Water Network and the Onondaga Lake Partnership Outreach Committee. She graduated from James Madison College of Public Affairs at Michigan State University with a degree in Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy.