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...gibe came as a terrible shock. "I was humiliated. I was embarrassed," she says, still fuming about the incident. "I didn't go to the EPA to be the butt of racially insensitive remarks." But she thought those days were over when President Clinton in early 1993 selected Carol Browner, a noted liberal who had worked as an aide to Al Gore, as the EPA's new administrator. "I was pleased to see a woman with a reputation for being sensitive to civil rights issues become administrator," says Coleman-Adebayo, 48. "I thought she would start a dialogue about...
That was not to be. Instead of cleaning up the agency's racial pollution, says Coleman-Adebayo, Browner allowed it to fester. "She wasn't at all sympathetic to complaints about civil rights abuses," says Coleman-Adebayo. "We were treated like Negroes, to use a polite term. We were put in our place." In Coleman-Adebayo's case, that meant that even though her work as one of the EPA's representatives to the United Nations conference on women held in Beijing in 1995 won praise from Hillary Clinton and Browner herself, she got neither a raise nor a promised...
...speech delivered at the Kennedy School Forum on Monday, April 17, the longest-serving administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Carol Browner described the convoluted history of federal responsibility for protecting public health through the assurance of a safe physical environment. So far, the success story has been defined by the national mediation of parochial arguments between the industrial sector and determined environmental activists, with occasional but costly lawsuits filed against the EPA by both sides. This trend will likely continue far into the term of the next EPA administrator whose style and mandate will be determined...
...starters, the Kyoto protocol on global warming is awaiting ratification. Browner made an astute observation that one of the main difficulties experienced by the Clinton administration in ratifying the Kyoto protocol is the inadequate coverage of interests represented by developing countries. If China, India, Brazil and most of Africa still consider national action plans for mitigating global warming as an unaffordable luxury in the context of a lopsided global trade and development establishment, then substantial environmental peddling remains to be done by the U.S. Unfortunately, the U.S.-sponsored Country Studies Program, the highly successful multi-agency program dedicated to assist...
...overpopulated coastal cities. So, it is among the vulnerable and the susceptible that the next EPA administrator must make a mark on national environmental conscientiousness and global environmental conscience. The two presidential candidates will do well now to consider carefully the credentials of their choice for the successor to Browner...