Lisa Jackson leaves;EPA boss stood up to industry

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency boss Lisa Jackson, the Obama administration’s clean air champion, will leave her post at the beginning of President Obama’s second term, creating another Cabinet level vacancy to be filled in his second term. “Lisa leaves giant shoes to fill,” said Frances Bienecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council. An outspoken native of New Orleans’ 9th Ward, later inundated by Hurricane Katrina, Jackson was an eloquent voice linking environmental protection with social justice. She noted that in Louisiana and other states, polluting industries that damaged children’s health were adjacent to poor neighborhoods and towns. Jackson locked horns in particular with the National Association of Manufacturers over […] read more