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“Our focus is to ensure that there is a strong science and policy basis for our environmental policy, to move the nation to greater reliance on clean energy and increase energy security, to combat global warming while growing the green economy, to protect public health and the environment, especially in vulnerable communities, and to protect and restore our great ecosystems.”
– Chair Nancy Sutley
At the White House Clean Energy Economy Forum on Sustainable Buildings, CEQ Chair Nancy Sutley, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, GSA Administrator Martha Johnson, and HUD Deputy Secretary Ron Sims joined more than 120 leaders in the commercial building community to talk about Federal leadership in sustainable building.
CEQ staff travel to Barre, Vermont, to tour SBE Inc., which received a $9.1 million Recovery Act grant to build a new electric drive component manufacturing facility.
Last week, Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, joined other senior Administration officials in locations across California to hear Californians ideas for the America's Great Outdoors Initiative.
Nancy Sutely, Chair of the Council on Environmetal Quality, visits three Silicon Valley companines at the forefront of solar and smart-grid technology.
The Federal Environmental Executive invites Federal employees to nominate candidates for the 2010 GreenGov Presidential Awards.
Amy Salzman, CEQ Associate Director for Policy Outreach, joined more than 500 young leaders in Central Park to focus on the best ways in involve young people in the President's America's Great Outdoors Initiative.
In the latest meeting with Congrssional leaders of both parties – a new tradition promised by the President in his State of the Union Address – the conversation was focused on small business and energy reform.
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Vice President Biden traveled to Theodore, Alabama to assess efforts to counter the BP oil spill.
Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke kicks off a Clean Energy Economy Forum on clean energy manufacturing at the White House.
At the White House Clean Energy Economy Forum on Sustainable Buildings, CEQ Chair Nancy Sutley, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, GSA Administrator Martha Johnson, and HUD Deputy Secretary Ron Sims joined more than 120 leaders in the commercial building community to talk about Federal leadership in sustainable building.
David Sandalow, Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs at the Department of Energy, takes your questions and comments on the world's first Clean Energy Ministerial.