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EPA + You = A Greener Future. Lisa Jackson, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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🗓️ 2 October 2009

⏱️ 67 minutes

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EPA + You = A Greener Future Lisa Jackson, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency After winning higher auto fuel economy earlier this year, what are the EPA’s next big priorities? In her first visit to California as the country’s chief environmental regulator, Jackson will lay out her vision for cleaning up America’s air, water and land. What are her plans on toxics, mining and other hot-button issues? And with climate legislation winding through Congress, what is her view on a national renewable fuel standard and other drivers moving toward a clean energy future? How does she plan to “sell” environmentalism in minority communities? Join us for an evening with President Obama’s top green advisor. This program was recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco as part of Climate One at The Commonwealth Club on September 29, 2009 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There once was a woman who lived in a shoe. A size too snug, but what could she do? But that's not where her story ends. Thanks to a little help from her Experian friends, she got her score into much better shape and relocated to a box fresh new place, with room to grow and a mortgage to suit. Now, she lives in a spacious four-bedroom cowboy boots.

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Better your Experian credit score to help get mortgage ready. Experian. Better your score. Better

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your story. Welcome to this podcast of Climate One at the Commonwealth Club. I'm Greg Dalton, founder of

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Climate One. Climate One brings together thought Club. I'm Greg Dalton, founder of Climate One.

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Climate One brings together thought leaders from around the world

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to advance solutions to global warming.

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The Commonwealth Club is a non-profit,

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non-partisan forum open to the public.

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Join us online at commonwealthclub.org.

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Welcome to Climate One at the Commonwealth Club.

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I'm Steve Klein, Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer at PG&A.

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Climate One is a leadership dialogue on energy, the economy,

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and environment that advances the transition to a prosperous and clean energy future.

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Our guest today is Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Just four months after taking the helm at EPA, Administrator Jackson stood in the White House Rose Garden last May,

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alongside CEOs of the world's largest automakers. The industry CEOs and top federal regulators

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all listened shoulder to shoulder as President Obama announced a deal to increase auto efficiency standards and reduce greenhouse gases.

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It was a historic gathering of former foes that would have been unthinkable just a few months earlier.

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Before President Obama picked her as the first African American to run the EPA,

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Administrator Jackson served as the chief of staff

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for New York Governor, sorry, New Jersey Governor John Corzine, and Commissioner of the State's

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Department of Environmental Protection. In that position, she worked to ensure underserved communities

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