Buddy Bealer is a Global Regulatory Liaison at Shell Oil Products and works from his home office in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. Buddy works with Shell global environmental remediation staff, consultants, industry representatives, and regulators to develop and update regulation and guidance with state of the art research and science. Buddy joined Shell in 1988 and worked in various construction and environmental positions. He managed a Northeast environmental consulting firm office located in New Jersey for five years and returned to Shell in 2001. Buddy contributed as a charter member (2009) to the ITRC’s Green and Sustainable Remediation Team. Buddy earned a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering – with emphasis on Renewable Energy from the Pennsylvania State University in State College in 1988 and an executive master’s in Business Administration from the University of Connecticut in Storrs in 1997.