EPA's Lisa Jackson Is at the Center of Obama's Climate Change Policy
The EPA administrator has moved quickly to undo Bush's environmental legacy
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Since taking over the Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator Lisa Jackson has moved quickly to reconsider several controversial Bush-era environmental decisions, signaling that the agency under her direction will play a very different role from that under recent predecessors.
Nowhere is this change in direction more apparent than in a handful of recent, potentially far-reaching maneuvers related to climate change policy. In January, Jackson directed EPA officials to reconsider California's languishing request to impose stricter greenhouse gas emissions limits on motor vehicles. (The Bush administration denied it in 2007.) More recently, she instructed the agency to review Bush policies that, if changed, could lead to federal regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from coal plants and utilities.
Because these reviews clearly have the White House's backing, Jackson's first few months in office suggest that she will play a critical role in carrying out the administration's climate change policy, even as the details and timing of a carbon dioxide regulation plan remain undecided. Though noting that laws "leave room for policymakers to make policy judgments," she also has pledged "to administer with science as my guide." Jackson comes to the EPA with significant regulatory experience, having served for more than 15 years at the EPA before becoming New Jersey's chief environmental regulator in 2006.
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Reader Comments
Electric Car
Does it matter if the car runs on gas or electric. Dunce head. We provide electricy by oil. Since, our housing need burns up all of our alternative energies, then one must assume that the additional electricy need to produce enough energy for the billions of car to run on daily, that it will come from gas..or oil to be exact. The only advantage is that we should be able to scrub the fumes cheaper than the cars do. How ever I argue that that will also be a wash. So, the last advantage of the electric car is that as alternavtive fuels become more available they all will be able to be converted to electric.
Which is a huge advantage. But the only question is rather or not it can be done on a bipartisan bases ...the answer is no way. Dems, republicans, and our departmental governments agencies have all I think to be proven to be corrupt...at best.
So, you want electric. Vote American. Vote Independent.
crooks beind our money going bye bye
the truth of the matter is that our government could operate on half of the tax it collects. Maybe it does? So, why so greedy. Kerry kooks or crooks is a good question. Ask those of the big dig. We need to fire them all. Dems and Reps. and put someone in there that will cut our governmental blood red dollar bleading. StoP the oozing. Vote American. Vote Independent.
Commie
whoever said Obama is a commie is apparently a moron. you first call him a socialist, and its not good enough for you after he tried to tackled the health care reform which most other president wouldn't touch. you now call him a commie, what are you thinking? how about you be the president? na, i doubt you will even pass the local election because you a nobody.
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