The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) announced that Hugh C. McDiarmid Jr. has joined the EGLE executive team. McDiarmid will coordinate all communication activities for the department.
McDiarmid comes to EGLE from The Kresge Foundation where he directed both internal and external communications for the foundation’s environmental program, which is focused on building climate change resilience in urban, low-income communities, among other key initiatives.
McDiarmid has more than 30 years of experience in journalism and communications including a decade with The Detroit Free Press, where he reported extensively on environmental issues. He also directed communications efforts for the Michigan Environmental Council for eight years and more recently oversaw outreach for the Great Lakes Office of the International Joint Commission. A resident of Farmington, he will be based in Lansing and head EGLE’s Office of Public Information.
Published in the September 2019 Edition