Saturday, December 19, 2020

It is a great team.

They are veterans of governance and obsessed with an American environment and climate to support quality of life. I am looking forward to their experience moving federal governance to it's best outcomes for the American people as soon as humanly possible.

I would also expect they would remove any federal employees that stand in the way of these vital priorities. There is no time for insubordination or sabotage. These cabinet members and department members need a movement of change to achieve goals as we move toward 2030.

What I also found important as stated by team members is the goal of being carbon neutral by 2050. It is a good goal. 

December 19, 2020
By Lisa Friedman

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All the changes have to be scrutinized for the impact that exists on the land and people. People live on the land. It is important there is no pollution that adversely effects people's health.

The Federal Permitting (click here) Improvement Steering Council (Permitting Council) proposes to add mining as a sector with infrastructure projects eligible for coverage under Title 41 of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST-41)....

Project sponsor (click here) participation in FAST-41 is voluntarily.

...The group (click here) includes progressives like Representative Deb Haaland of New Mexico, Mr. Biden’s choice to lead the Department of the Interior and a co-sponsor of the Green New Deal, and establishment figures like Jennifer Granholm, the former governor of Michigan who Mr. Biden tapped to be Energy secretary. Michael Regan, North Carolina’s top environmental regulator, was named to lead the Environmental Protection Agency and Brenda Mallory, a longtime environmental attorney, will chair the Council on Environmental Quality. And last month Mr. Biden named former Secretary of State John Kerry as an international presidential envoy on climate change.

“Folks, we’re in a crisis,” Mr. Biden said on Saturday. “Just like we need to be a unified nation to respond to Covid-19, we need a unified national response to climate change.” Citing the costs and loss of life from wildfires that raged across the West this year, Mr. Biden vowed to restore the regulations that President Trump rolled back, and said, “We will set new ambitious standards that our workers are ready to meet today.”...

The reason all these changes occurred is because THE LAW does not OBLIGATE the EPA Secretary to take public comment seriously and it was just dismissed as customer complaints.