From Inside EPA, in case you’re wondering what they’ve got in store for you. Comment is unnecessary. As is, apparently, the accountable-to-the-voters Congress actually daring to say this is what they want:
EPA Staff Plan Major Agency Overhaul To Address Climate Change
As Obama transition officials prepare to meet with EPA officials, agency staff are preparing to discuss a series of major steps to bolster what agency officials anticipate will be the “big, bold changes” the incoming administration will seek to reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs) and address climate change, among other major issues.
Obama’s election has “given us the opportunity to address very big areas” such as climate change, Kathy Sedlak O’Brien, a top official in EPA’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer, told EPA’s National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT) Nov. 14.
She noted that many consider climate change to be “the major issue of our times,” adding that one top EPA air official said recently that this is “a once-in-a-generation time to make a difference, and [this] is an opportunity that doesn’t come along very often to really make a change.”
Meanwhile, Margo Oge, director of EPA’s Office of Air Quality and Transport, told a Nov. 13 forum on climate change that, “I think this is probably going to be one of the most challenging transitions because of the big issues at stake,” citing climate change, energy security and economic challenges.
O’Brien, the director of the office of planning, analysis and accountability, said EPA staff are already revising the agency’s draft strategic plan for 2009-2014 — the document that guides EPA’s budgeting and policy priorities — to go beyond the voluntary technology-transfer approach that the Bush administration recommended in a recent draft version to address climate change. …[T]he Sep. 30 draft document makes the issue of GHG reductions the agency’s top policy priority…
Shortly before the Nov. 4 election, Obama also signaled his support for EPA employees, promising EPA union leaders that, if elected, he would boost the agency’s budget and restore the agency’s “scientific integrity,” in line with union priorities.





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