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Preserving & Enhancing the Environment
“Our focus is to ensure that there is a strong science and policy basis for our environmental policy, to move the nation to greater reliance on clean energy and increase energy security, to combat global warming while growing the green economy, to protect public health and the environment, especially in vulnerable communities, and to protect and restore our great ecosystems.”
– Chair Nancy Sutley
CEQ Blog 
- April 28, 2011 at 12:00 PM EDT
Knowing Where We Stand to Save Money, Improve Efficiency, Reduce Pollution, and Eliminate Waste
The Obama Administration releases the first-ever comprehensive Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Inventory for the Federal Government, which accounts for the GHG emissions associated with the Federal Government's operations in 2010.
- April 27, 2011 at 2:59 PM EDT
A Clear Commitment to Clean Water for America
The Obama Administration releases a national clean water framework that affirms the Administration’s comprehensive commitment to ensuring clean water and healthy waterways for American families, American communities, and the American economy.
- April 26, 2011 at 5:50 PM EDT
Cultivating the Seeds of Knowledge; Growing a Greener Future for our Nation
The Green Ribbon Schools program recognizes schools that are creating healthy and sustainable learning environments - both inside and outside the classroom, teaching environmental literacy, and increasing environmental health by reducing their environmental footprint.
- April 22, 2011 at 7:59 PM EDT
Earth Day Lesson: You Can Teach an Old Elephant New Tricks
CEQ Chair Sutley joins EPA Administrator Jackson and Alexander Cousteau to celebrate Earth Day at the National Zoo, and to learn about a new sustainably designed habitat for some of the zoo's most popular residents, the Asian elephants.
- April 22, 2011 at 10:38 AM EDT
What You Missed: Open for Questions on Energy and the Environment with Nancy Sutley and Heather Zichal
Nancy Sutley and Heather Zichal, two of President Obama's top energy and environment advisers, answered your questions about going green this Earth Day.
- April 21, 2011 at 2:12 PM EDT
Winning the Future for Our Communities, Investing in Our Earth for Their Future
Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, discusses the conservation efforts she participated in with residents of Los Angeles, California.
CEQ INITIATIVES
Climate Change Adaptation Task Force
Agency Strategic Sustainability Performance Plans
Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration
New Proposed NEPA Guidance and Steps to Modernize and Reinvigorate NEPA
Review of MMS NEPA Procedures for OCS Oil and Gas Exploration and Development
Federal Sustainability
GreenGov
Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force
Recovery through Retrofit
Updated Principles and Guidelines for Water and Land Related Resources Implementation Studies (P&G).
America's Great Outdoors Initiative
Interagency Carbon Capture and Storage Task Force
The Latest News
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April 22, 2011 9:35 AM EDT
Presidential Proclamation--Earth Day
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April 15, 2011 10:40 AM EDT
President Obama Announces Presidential Delegation to Kyiv, Ukraine to attend the Kyiv Summit on the Safe and Innovative Use of Nuclear Energy and Chornobyl Pledging Conference
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April 7, 2011 8:42 PM EDT
President Obama Signs North Dakota Emergency Declaration
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April 6, 2011 12:17 PM EDT
Background on the President’s Town Hall at the Gamesa Plant in Fair Hills, Pennsylvania
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April 1, 2011 3:23 PM EDT
Remarks by the President on the Clean Fleet Partnership in Landover, Maryland
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March 30, 2011 4:36 PM EDT
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Heather Zichal, 3/30/2011
