Green Options » christine todd whitman http://greenoptions.com/tag/christine-todd-whitman Posts tagged 'christine todd whitman' Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:57:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Whitman: Department of Environmental Protection? http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/06/whitman-department-of-environmental-protection/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/06/whitman-department-of-environmental-protection/#comments Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:57:13 +0000 Timothy B. Hurst http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/06/whitman-department-of-environmental-protection/ Speaking on National Public Radio during the Republican National Convention last week, the former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator from early in the George W. Bush administration, Christine Todd Whitman, said she would like to see the EPA become its own department within the U.S. government (along with all of the rights and privileges bestowed upon them).

The idea of edifying the EPA into a department that has a seat in the President’s cabinet may not sit well with some of her Republican colleagues who fear that such a move would only increase the size of the government. However, the EPA has hardly been the model of efficiency and effectiveness since its inception in the early 1970s. A restructuring of the EPA that created a cabinet seat might offer the type of coordinating capacity that our federal government currently lacks, in terms of creating coherent environmental policy set in the context of climate change.

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