Council on Environmental Quality

“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

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CEQ Blog

  • June 27, 2011 at 7:00 PM EDT

    Voice of an Innovator: The Comeback of American Manufacturing

    Meet Michelle Gibson, CEO of IceStone, a small green manufacturer based in Brooklyn, NY that has been producing premium durable surfaces made of recycled glass and concrete since 2003. This manufacturing company has diverted millions of tons of glass from the waste stream, and has created green collar jobs in the manufacturing sector.

  • June 20, 2011 at 1:00 PM EDT

    Manufacturing Our Nation's Clean Energy Future

    This week, Chair Sutley traveled to the Brooklyn Navy Yard to visit IceStone, a small manufacturer that creates countertops and surfaces from 100 percent recycled glass, diverting hundreds of tons of glass from landfills each year.

  • June 8, 2011 at 7:04 PM EDT

    Ocean Stewardship Built By You, For You

    On Monday, Chair Sutley traveled to Providence, Rhode Island to hear from the communities that depend on our oceans and coasts about the actions they would like to see put in place to implement the President's National Ocean Policy.

  • May 27, 2011 at 1:00 PM EDT

    Tommy Allred Meets the President

    This blog introduces readers to Alexandra Allred, the mother of 11-year old Tommy Allred who suffers from chronic asthma. The Allreds live in a city with poor air quality polluted by local cement plants, which affects Tommy’s asthma. Read about their journey to Washington, DC and how the Obama Administration is working to protect future generations by putting in place standards that will ensure clean, healthy air for all Americans.

  • May 24, 2011 at 7:40 PM EDT

    Driving our Nation Toward America's Clean Energy Future

    Today, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, U.S. General Services Administrator Martha Johnson and White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley came together to announce another major step in leading by example and reducing our dependence on oil by boosting clean energy technologies in our Federal fleet.

  • May 12, 2011 at 6:00 PM EDT

    Working with Communities to Restore a Healthy and Prosperous Gulf Coast

    CEQ Chair Nancy Sutley travels to Mobile, Alabama to participate in the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force public meeting and discuss the Administration's work to protect and restore the Gulf Coast.

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CEQ INITIATIVES

Commitment to Clean Water

NEPA Pilot Program

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