We Support EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson

Sign the petition in support of Lisa Jackson and the EPA.

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Lisa Jackson is the environmental conscience of the Obama Administration.  Lisa Jackson has had the backbone to stand up for good science and for strong enforcement of the laws that protect our air and water — regardless of politics.  She does not always win, but America can take comfort in knowing that this skillful, tireless champion is working 24/7 to safeguard our neighborhoods and our children.
Lisa Jackson has quietly, firmly withstood mindless pummeling by paleolithic members of Congress who put political hyperbole before science and our economy. Buoyed by her command of the facts, she has withstood the D.C. whirlpool with what Mark Twain once called “the calm confidence of a Christian holding Four Aces.”

Lately, however, as the political race has heated up, Ms. Jackson has often found herself with less than the full-throated support of the White House. Political operatives have been resurrecting that old canard that a healthy environment destroys jobs.  They are one step away from describing industrial stench as the smell of progress.

The most recent example was a recent decision by the White House to overrule the EPA on setting tougher smog standards.  Ironically, the EPA rule would have actually created jobs!  Read what Al Gore has to say about this move by the Administration.

Among the chattering classes, Politico for one, there was speculation that that ill-conceived decision was the final tipping point for Lisa Jackson — that she would soldier on for a while, but that she was planning her exit.  What is the use of working hard for three years, mobilizing your agency to implement a law, if it can be whimsically overturned by political operatives guessing how it will play with the know-nothing politicians?

We had no inside information. We knew nothing about Ms. Jackson’s actual state of mind when we started this website and petition. We wanted to show Administrator Jackson that there was a groundswell of support for her work and for what the EPA does. We did not want her to leave.

Thanks to your support we now know that Lisa Jackson will stay at the helm of the EPA.

Yet our work does not stop here! We must continue to support the work of the Environmental Protection Agency and its Administrator. The attacks from special interests against the agency are only going to ratchet up. The EPA needs the everyday American citizen who cares about the air we breathe and the water we drink in their corner.

Sign our petition supporting Administrator Jackson and the EPA.

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