John Ruple is a Research Professor of Law at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law and directs the Law and Policy Program for the Wallace Stegner Center for Land Resources and the Environment. He served as Senior Counsel in the While House Council on Environmental Quality during the Biden Administration. John's research focuses on management of federal public lands, improving the efficacy of environmental permitting and review processes, critical mineral mining, and the transboundary impacts of mining operations. He has also worked extensively on land and water resource management issues involving energy development in Utah's Uinta Basin. Before joining the University of Utah in 2008, John worked as policy analyst in Governor Jon Huntsman Jr's Public Lands Office, as an environmental attorney in private practice, and as a NEPA contractor specializing in permitting for projects on National Forest System lands. His work has published widely, including in nine book chapters, and articles in the Harvard Environmental Law Review, the Columbia Environmental Law Journal, U.C. Berkeley’s Ecology Law Quarterly, the Georgetown Environmental Law Review, and Environmental Law. He was lead or contributing author on more than a dozen government reports and fifteen environmental impact statements and environmental assessments.