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Water gets close attention of Obama team |
| Water gets close attention of Obama team |
| | Wednesday, December 03, 2008 - Water Technology News |
| | | WASHINGTON — Members of President-Elect Barack Obama’s transition team are being briefed by officials in the outgoing Bush administration, and a December 3 Washington Post article gave a glimpse of that process at work at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
In visits with EPA senior staff, Obama people have “focused on drinking-water standards, asking about how to reduce children’s and mothers’ exposure to perchlorate, a chemical in rocket fuel that is leaching into groundwater near military bases,” Post reporters Shailagh Murray and Carol D. Leonnig wrote.
Among Obama’s emissaries to the EPA are likely candidates for top jobs there, the article said. They include Lisa Jackson, commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, who is among front-runners for the post of Obama’s EPA administrator; and Robert Sussman, a former Clinton administration official and now a lawyer and fellow at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, who is a potential pick as a top EPA deputy.
Because the EPA is the principal regulator of US water quality standards and overseer of many water infrastructure programs, Obama’s approach to running the agency will be watched closely by all water-related industries.
Jackson and Sussman are among Obama transition-team members who, wearing yellow badges and adhering to ground rules agreed upon by Obama and President Bush, are now meeting with senior Bush officials in many agencies, asking “pointed questions” and “dissecting agency initiatives, poring over budgets and unearthing documents that may prove crucial as a new Democratic president assumes control,” the article said.
The goal is to allow new agency administrators to “hit the ground running” as soon as Obama is inaugurated on January 20. The transition process is similar in its basics to transitions involving some past administrations, according to the article.
In addition to perchlorate and other drinking-water standards issues, a top concern of Obama representatives in the EPA briefings has been climate change. “They are also asking how much money the enforcement divisions need to go after polluters,” the article said. The Obama team hopes to interview as many as 100 EPA staffers before filing a report that will guide the new administration.
In a related matter, reporter Kent Garber wrote in a December 1 U.S. News & World Report article that the incoming Obama administration and Congress are being urged by many academics, environmentalists and lawmakers to address the nation’s water issues.
“At the top of their priority list: reviving federal laws — particularly the Clean Water Act — that have been weakened or narrowly interpreted in recent years; boosting funding for the nation's faltering and aging water infrastructure; and strengthening the Environmental Protection Agency's regulation of water pollution from industry and power plants,” the U.S. News article said. The article added, “Another concern is the condition of the nation’s sewage systems and water treatment facilities.” |
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Green Electronics - Recycled |
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Today almost anything can be recycled. Whether we realize it or not recycling has been going on for years. (Example: Landfills, auto junkyards, etc.) Within the last few years more and more companies are cashing in on the on this age old process. But what if we along with e-commerce could cash in on going green and recycle. Well now we can. Each week we’re going to discuss how we can go green, recycle and earn cash in the process and without changing your habits. Well, we might change some bad habits. Let’s get started, our first company is gazelle.com
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Have you destroyed your cell phone lately or brought a new one with newer feature? Or has the ipod stop working? Did you drop your iphone and the front shattered? Wouldn’t be nice if AT&T, Verizon, Apple and so forth had a forgiveness policy or trade in policy? Well they don’t. But one company does. At gazelle.com
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They pay you cash for your old or non-working electronics. They’ll either reuse your item or they will recycle it. So instead of trashing your old electronics, why not get something for it. So try it out, what do you have to lose? As you explore Gazelle.com
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Site check out their referral program by spreading this concept will can reuse our old electronics as oppose to letting them sit in the landfills for years to come.
How can you earn more green by going green? Well one company has positioned themselves to pay cash back everytime you shop. We will talk more about that company next week. But for now gather all those electronics visit Gazelle.com
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