Closing Statementchallenges For The New President Are Also Opportunities

摘要

Transition teams stocked with leading environmental lawyers are busy figuring out what priorities to recommend for the federal environmental and energy agencies. Reams of recommendations from interest groups are piling up. The hard question is where to start.rnNew federal executives with environmental responsibilities should first focus on getting results in the first two years of the Obama administration, when the crew is fresh and the president has the support of majorities in Congress and the country. That means capitalizing on the strongest forces for action: the need for a potent fiscal stimulus to revive the economy and the need for credible progress on greenhouse gas regulation.