As a new graduate of the University of Iowa master’s program
in Urban and Regional Planning, where he studied environmental and agricultural
policy, Hug was hired to be the first staff member for a Washington, D.C.-based
center now known as the Environmental Working Group. He conducted research and wrote policy
analyses on agricultural nonpoint source water pollution and wetlands issues,
and provided technical assistance on Capitol Hill and among the agencies for the
1990 Farm Bill, the Clean Water Act, and two fiscal years of Soil Conservation
Service appropriations.
He later worked on agricultural nonpoint source pollution policy for the
Maryland Department of Natural Resources and Chesapeake Bay Program , then
returned to Iowa to direct communications for a computer security software
company and later to launch his own computer security software company. He worked on the Iowa governor’s wetlands
task force and then watershed policy task force.
In 2003 he joined the staff of the Leopold Center for Sustainable
Agriculture at Iowa State University to work on local and regional food system
issues.
In December 2007
Andrew returned to policy advocacy work with Environment Iowa.
