“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

  • Administration Officials Travel to the Gulf Coast

    The Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality traveled to Louisiana to view relief work following the Deepwater oil spill and discuss long-term Gulf Coast restoration and recovery.

  • A Discussion on Environmental Justice

    White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley discusses environmental justice issues at a NEJAC public meeting.

  • Clean Energy Economy Forum on Federal Leaders and Sustainable Building

    At the White House Clean Energy Economy Forum on Sustainable Buildings, CEQ Chair Nancy Sutley, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, GSA Administrator Martha Johnson, and HUD Deputy Secretary Ron Sims joined more than 120 leaders in the commercial building community to talk about Federal leadership in sustainable building.

  • Electric Drive Components Made in Vermont

    CEQ staff travel to Barre, Vermont, to tour SBE Inc., which received a $9.1 million Recovery Act grant to build a new electric drive component manufacturing facility.

  • Traveling Across California to Celebrate America's Great Outdoors

    Last week, Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, joined other senior Administration officials in locations across California to hear Californians ideas for the America's Great Outdoors Initiative.

  • Solar and Smart Grid: Powering a Clean Energy Future

    Nancy Sutely, Chair of the Council on Environmetal Quality, visits three Silicon Valley companines at the forefront of solar and smart-grid technology.