The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), an organizational member and accredited standards developer of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), has announced that Peter A Pagano will be joining the organization’s policy team on 13 September as VP, environment. Mr Pagano has high-level experience in science, government, and environmental policy. Most recently, he served as an advisor to the natural science research units of the Smithsonian Institution. Prior to that he spent fifteen years at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), where he advised senior EPA management on national program areas and oversaw wide-ranging work on multi-pollutant air, energy, and transportation legislation.