Sentences with phrase «white house council»

White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Chair Nancy Sutley, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Shaun Donovan, Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, M.D., and Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman discussed the new plan during an event at the National Building Museum this morning.

«While the continued expansion is encouraging, faster growth is needed to replace the jobs lost in the recent downturn and to reduce long - term unemployment,» Alan Krueger, the head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said in his blog after the GDP numbers were released.

But the administration «has no desire to erode traditional environmental protections or roll back or strip protections,» Alex Herrgott, associate director of infrastructure at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said during a presentation at the Transportation Research Board's annual meeting in Washington in January.

Jordan Brooks from the White House Council on Women's and Girls did an incredible job in such a short time, pulling together over 100 speakers and 5,000 women in one venue for women's equality centered on six pillar topics.

Thank you to the White House Council on Women and Girls for making this a reality and to all the women and men working for gender equality.

Click here to see how a White House Council on Boys and Men, by strengthening father involvement and the family, reduces the need for the government - as - substitute husband.

A White House Council on Boys and Men can help redefine the role of the Office of Child Support Enforcement to include ombudsmen who help keep fathers and mothers equally involved — thus redefining child support to include emotional support.

In addition to exploring the impact of dozens of countries» paternity leave laws (from Canada and Germany to Portugal and Iceland), some changes a White House Council on Boys and Men can pioneer might start with the fundamentals...

A goal of the White House Council is to examine the research with the best answers, and suggest policies with not only the greatest benefit to our sons, but also to mothers and our daughters.105

According to commission of experts who wrote a proposal asking President Obama to create a White House Council on Boys and Men, reported on by the Huffington Post, the time a dad spends with his children is a particularly strong predictor of how empathetic a child will become.

Because of the issues facing young men today, a commission to create a White House Council on Boys and Men established «Young Voices TV and Radio» to give young people an opportunity to have their concerns heard by the public, media, politicians and community leaders.

The following women leaders, both conservative and liberal, either serve on the commission to create a White House Council on Boys and Men — to work with the already - formed White House Council on Women and Girls — or are taking a leadership role in petitioning President Obama to create a White House Council on Boys and Men.

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A White House Council on Boys and Men can explore how to best give the resource of dad to children and moms, a sense of purpose to dads, and save the nation trillions of dollars that are the cost of not recruiting fathers to reduce poverty and crime.

An analysis released today by the White House Council of Economic Advisers describes the economic returns to investments in early childhood education, including increased parental earnings and employment in the short - term, reduced need for remedial education and later public school expenditures, as well as long - term outcomes such as increased educational attainment, increased earnings, improved health, and decreased involvement with the criminal justice system.

The White House Council of Economic Advisors recently also...

Guzy, who is deputy director and general counsel of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, will join Covington Jan. 21 as of counsel in its environmental, public policy and government affairs practices, the firm announced Monday.

From our experience with the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and our understanding of current administration procedure, we assume that, before being activated, the site had to be politically cleared both by the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and at a high level at EPA.

Starting around mid-2002, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) began to move more aggressively to impose an administration political spin on global warming communication, including communication about the state of scientific understanding.

While in Washington, DC, the 2013 Goldman Prize recipients met with longtime friend of the Prize, Chair Nancy Sutley of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and Deputy Assistant for Energy and Climate Change Heather Zichal.

However, in the sharp elbows influence game of connecting (or disconnecting) climate science and climate policy, it seemed to me that Dr. Marburger and OSTP were outgunned by the corporate front - men Jim Connaughton and Phil Cooney at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, who were wired to Vice President Cheney's office, and also by the Commerce Department / NOAA political appointees Adm. Conrad Lautenbacher and Jim Mahoney.

He said former White House Council on Environmental Quality chief of staff Phil Cooney instructed him to delete all references to the assessment.»

Gary Guzy, Deputy Director at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, applauded the honorees and the organization for its work, which he said complemented the work of the Obama administration.

Obama also named his appointment of Lisa Jackson as the chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Nancy Sutley as head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Carol Browner as head of a newly - created White House position to coordinate energy, environment and climate change policies across federal agencies.

The White House Council on Environmental Quality censored, and then ceased publication of, a USDA brochure recommending steps that farmers could take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

John Goss, who heads the White House Council on Environmental Quality's Asian carp program, said sterile grass carp have been found in the Great Lakes for years.

In the same passage, Easterbrook claimed that James L. Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), is «as green as can be.»

Previously, David was a member of the Energy & Climate Change team at the White House Council on Environmental Quality for the Obama Administration.

Both industry and environmental groups have expressed support for the choices of Dr Steven Chu for Secretary of Energy, Lisa Jackson for EPA Administrator, Nancy Sutley to be Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Carol Browner for Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change (otherwise known as the «Energy Czar») and Heather Zichal for Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change.

Prior to joining RHG, Kate worked at the White House Council on Environmental Quality where she was Deputy Director for Energy and Climate Change where she helped develop President Obama's Climate Action Plan.

President Barack Obama appointed Jones in March 2009 to the new position of Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise, and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Mr. Cooney is chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the office that helps devise and promote administration policies on environmental issues.

June 3, 2002 The Guardian reports that Myron Ebell collaborated with Phil Cooney, chief of staff at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, to cover up the findings of an EPA report on climate change.

The memorandum, obtained by NRDC from the White House Council on Environmental Quality under the Freedom of Information Act, shows that ExxonMobil began a secret campaign for Dr. Watson's removal in the first weeks of the Bush administration, and reveals ExxonMobil's intention to replace Watson and other key scientists with contrarians known for disagreeing with the prevailing consensus that man - made pollution is causing global warming.

«Acting today will save us money,» Jason Furman, the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, which is releasing the analysis, told reporters on a conference call.

The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), which coordinates NEPA, is responsible for ensuring that the State Department's environmental impact statement is executed correctly, National Wildlife Federation senior vice president Jeremy Symons said in a teleconference about Keystone XL with reporters Tuesday.

The Prize recipients had the honor of meeting with several prominent political leaders including President Barack Obama, acting EPA Administrator Robert Perciasepe and Chair Nancy Sutley from the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Nancy H. Sutley, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, will also testify, and Interior Secretary Salazar will appear again.

James L. Connaughton, the chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said the Bush administration was making this a high priority.

«Thanks to the hard work of this talented team of government officials and non-governmental groups being honored by the US EPA's climate and ozone awards, Montreal Protocol Parties were able to reach agreement to speed up the phase - out of HCFCs [hydrochlorofluorocarbons],» said James L. Connaughton, Chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

This guest post comes from Dean Baker who, in a sane world, would be on (or chairing) the White House Council of Economic Advisors.

And before that she worked at the American Geophysical Union, the Environmental Protection Agency in the oceans and coastal protection division, and the White House Council on Environmental Quality to develop and advance the National Ocean Policy.

Congress directed the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and DOI to develop a government - wide strategy to address climate impacts to fish, wildlife, and plants.

In August, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued a somewhat obscure but extremely important guidance to other federal agencies.

«It's going to be a difficult process,» Nancy Sutley, the chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said during the Senate hearing.

Virtually every other key policy role was filled by environmental regulators — former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Carol Browner as climate czar, former Browner aide Lisa Jackson as EPA administrator, and Nancy Sutley as chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

White House Council of Economic Advisers Report: Failure To Act On Climate Could Cost U.S..

The White House Council of Economic Advisors released a report in 2014 detailing the economic costs of failing to act on climate change.

The White House Council on Environmental Quality has issued regulations (40 C.F.R. 1500 - 1508) and associated guidance for implementation of NEPA, available through CEQ's website (http://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/ceq/).

He has testified as an expert witness on the theology, ethics, science, and economics of climate change policy before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the Energy and Environment Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce; briefed the White House Council on Environmental Policy; delivered a paper at a conference at the Vatican sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; and spoken at the 2008, 2009, and 2010 International Conferences on Climate Change and at colleges, churches, and other venues.