Word: environmentalism
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See TIME's special report on the environment.
The simple fact that Obama chose officials who take the threat of climate change seriously and value the independent opinion of scientists - two qualities that were rarely in evidence among President George W. Bush's environment appointees - would have been enough to cheer greens. "It represents a 180-degree turnaround...
“Would we be launching that program right now in the current economic environment? I highly doubt it,” said Sally C. Donahue, director of financial aid.
• Out of college, Browner became an aide in the Florida house of representatives, but left for Washington D.C. a few years later to work for Citizen Action, a grassroots organization that lobbies for a variety of issues, including the environment.
• "She wasn't at all sympathetic to complaints about civil rights abuses. We were treated like Negroes, to use a polite term. We were put in our place." - Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, a former EPA employee whose complaints of a "racially toxic" environment there led to the signing of the...