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Water gets close attention of Obama team

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on December 4, 2008 at 8:05 am

From WaterTech Online:

Members of President-Elect Barack Obama’s transition team are being briefed by officials in the outgoing Bush administration, and a December 3 Washington Post article gave a glimpse of that process at work at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

In visits with EPA senior staff, Obama people have “focused on drinking-water standards, asking about how to reduce children’s and mothers’ exposure to perchlorate, a chemical in rocket fuel that is leaching into groundwater near military bases,” Post reporters Shailagh Murray and Carol D. Leonnig wrote.

Among Obama’s emissaries to the EPA are likely candidates for top jobs there, the article said. They include Lisa Jackson, commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, who is among front-runners for the post of Obama’s EPA administrator; and Robert Sussman, a former Clinton administration official and now a lawyer and fellow at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, who is a potential pick as a top EPA deputy.

Because the EPA is the principal regulator of US water quality standards and overseer of many water infrastructure programs, Obama’s approach to running the agency will be watched closely by all water-related industries.

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December 4, 2008 · Filed Under Drinking Water, National water news, Water Quality

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