Eric O. Stork

Eric Oswald Stork (January 8, 1927 - February 2, 2014) was an American regulator from the Environmental Protection Agency. He fought with the auto industry over automobile air pollution standards.

Biography

Eric Oswald Stork was born on January 8, 1927, in Hamburg, Germany. He was sent to Britain as a child, came to the United States at 13, and grew up in the state of Washington. He served in the U.S. Army near the end of World War II. After serving in the army, he studied at the University of Washington for two years before transferring to Reed College, where he earned a BA in political science in 1950, writing his thesis on the Pacific Northwest Field Committee of the Department of the Interior. Stork died February 2, 2014 in Arlington, Virginia, due to kidney failure.