Nancy Sutley

Badgering the green team at SEJ

Looking beyond Copenhagen, with no Plan B 2
Posted 1 month ago President Obama's lieutenants put on their game faces as they fielded journalists' questions Friday, but there was a palpable sense that they know the game is already over going into the global talks on climate change in December.
while we're young?

White House announces Gulf restoration task force amid criticism of Army Corps 0
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
In response to criticism that the Army Corps of Engineers has failed to take needed action, President Obama is creating a federal task force to overhaul management of coastal restoration efforts in Louisiana and Mississippi.
removing mountaineers from mountaintop removal debate

Does CEQ-EPA regulatory banter abet historicide? 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Mired in the acrobatics of regulatory doublespeak, the Obama administration's increasing oversight of the unbearable daily toll on Appalachian coalfield residents from mountaintop removal begs the question: Are Obama's well-meaning but irresolute environmental administrators abetting the crimes of human rights violations and historicide?
Obama’s environmental adviser talks coal and mountaintop mining 1
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
If you could CEQ her now

Coal is here to stay, says Obama’s chief environmental adviser 2
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
"Clearly coal is a part of our energy mix now and it's likely to be so in the future," says Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. In an exclusive interview, she also talks about economic stimulus, green jobs, and mountaintop-removal mining. Watch the video and read the highlights.
Zen and the art of anxiety maintenance

Why I’m not freaked out about the Waxman-Markey climate bill 36
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Will the Waxman-Markey bill spark a full-scale energy revolution? No. Not in the next 10-15 years. But I've been trying to focus on the bigger picture: will there be an energy revolution? The two questions are not the same; thinking they are is the road to freakout.
MT promises?

Obama admin will scrutinize mountaintop mining, but not stop it 7
Posted 5 months ago
The Obama administration on Thursday announced new steps to reduce the environmental damage from mountaintop-removal mining. Activists say that's a nice first step, but they're disappointed that the admin isn't planning to rein the practice in further and ultimately put a stop to it.
The administration

Key Obama advisers on climate and energy 0
Posted 5 months ago
President Barack Obama's key advisers on energy and climate issues include a former top aide to Al Gore, a Nobel Prize winner, a governor, and a gaggle of former members of Congress. Meet them.
Thirty years of betrayal later, Appalachia can't wait

Dear Nancy Sutley: Get it right on mountaintop removal 0
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
As a new round of explosives shattered the ridges across mountaintop removal mines in Boone and Raleigh counties in West Virginia yesterday, unleashed by a recent U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decision, White House Council on Environmental Quality chair Nancy Sutley gave the first indications that the Obama administration plans to act promptly on dealing with the ravages of mountaintop removal in Appalachia.
The players: Obama’s people 5
Posted 9 months ago
Senate confirms Jackson as EPA chief 2
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago
New CEQ head Nancy Sutley on transit and green jobs 3
Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Sutley promises to be ‘voice for the environment’ in Obama White House 1
Posted 9 months, 4 weeks ago
Sutley testifies before Senate Environment and Public Works Committee 0
Posted 9 months, 4 weeks ago
Nancy Sutley is expected to be effective at CEQ, even in Carol Browner’s shadow 1
Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Obama officially announces his green team 1
Posted 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Nancy Sutley, tapped to head CEQ, garners praise from fellow Californians 0
Posted 11 months ago
L.A. Deputy Mayor Nancy Sutley may head up Obama’s Council on Environmental Quality 0
Posted 11 months ago