Yo! The Environmental Protection Agency is looking for your comments on how to keep the nation’s water sources clean. You don’t have to be a scientist just someone with good ideas and/or common sense. The EPA is accepting comments until the 31st of March (tomorrow). Click on the link below to make your voice heard on this issue.
2010 marks the 40th anniversary of the Environmental Protection Agency and for the first time in a long time that the EPA is on the J-O-B. One of the main reasons the EPA is getting it together, the Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. Checktheweather.net Video Blog Series “Word on the Concrete got a chance to get a few words with the Administrator before she went off to meetings on Capitol Hill.
Check out what she has to say about being the First African-American to head the Environmental Protection Agency. What she hopes for the future of going green. Plus a special message for the grassroots of America.
For more information on what’s going down at the EPA click here.
Also look out for future episodes of Word on the Concrete very soon….
Yesterday the The United States Environmental Protection Agency announced the results from their recent endangerment findings on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Public Health. Through an official press release from the EPA the agency announced that Greenhouse Gas Emissions are bad for the public health and welfare of American people. The EPA also found that emissions from on road vehicles contribute to the increase in greenhouse gas emissions. While Environmental organizations have been screaming this message for decades, this finding is important because it gives the EPA the leverage to regulate greenhouse gas emissions even before the United States Congress comes to agreement on clean-energy legislation.
Today, Lisa Jackson discussed these findings and more with United States delegates and non-governmental representatives in attendance at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The common response from those in attendance was that this was a good finding and gave extra negotiating power to Obama to support binding international regulations on climate change.
At the same time as Jackson’s presentation, dozens of African youth stormed the halls of the convention center urging for stronger regulations on Greenhouse Gas Emissions that are causing drastic Climate Change especially in Africa and the Global South.
The United States is one of the largest contributors to climate change putting out an estimated 25 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change. The Common message from African youth at the convention is that they feel an affinity for President Obama because he is of African descent. Several stated they hoped he could come in and offer true support to the African continent.
Now that Obama does not have to wait on congress to regulate carbon emissions the world waits and wonders if he can lead the world in a just and equitable fight against drastic climate change.
to read the findings and watch a video of the EPA press conference click here
This past week on December 2, 2009 The White Office invited over 100 young leaders from around the country for a clean energy forum. Youth were able to speak and have their questions answered from everyone from Energy Secretary Chu, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson and Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis. Check out the Video from the event. If you look closely you can see Checktheweather co-founder Kari Fulton sitting in the front row!
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