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Announcements and Activities

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Revitalizing Brownfields Sites

(September 20, 2004) At the 2004 Brownfields Conference in St Louis, MO, Administrator Leavitt encouraged collaboration as the key to achieving Brownfields restoration success. The annual conference examines ways to clean up and reuse environmentally contaminated or potentially contaminated properties.
Speech | Brownfields homepage

Report shows air cleanest in three decades

Millions of Tons
  
  1970 2003*    
CO 197.3   93.7  
NOx 26.9 20.5  
PM10    12.2 2.3  
SO2 31.2 15.8  
VOC 33.7 15.4  
Lead .221 .003  
*preliminary data
 

September 22, 2004 - Saying that today's air is the cleanest most Americans have ever breathed, Administrator Mike Leavitt announced that total emissions of the six principal pollutants identified in the Clean Air Act dropped again in 2003. Annual emissions statistics for the six pollutants are considered major indicators of the quality of the nation’s air. The Acid Rain Progress Report, released at the same time, shows annual SO2 and NOx emissions have declined 32 percent and 37 percent respectively since 1990. Administrator Leavitt said that the proposed Clean Air Interstate Rule, to be finalized later this year, will mean continued progress in cleaning America’s air.
Administrator's presentation (PDF, 15pp., 1 MB) | News release | 2003 Emissions Report | Acid Rain Report

Statement re Executive Order on Cooperative Conservation

(August 26, 2004) The generational relay of environmental progress requires that we keep finding faster and better ways to conserve our land, air and water. President Bush is leading this charge and today’s Executive Order on Cooperative Conservation puts the power of local ideas and insights into action. As a western governor, I witnessed first-hand how the innovative and practical thinking of those who live and work on the land helped conserve critical lands, clean airsheds and reclaim waterways. By involving local expertise in the decisions we make, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will implement the President’s vision to make environmental progress faster and less expensively. We will turn the slow and conflict-ridden ways of the past into the new and better ways of the future.
Read the Order

Progress report on Great Lakes Executive Order

Administrator Mike Leavitt told the Great Lakes Mayors there is progress on both aspects of the recently issued Great Lakes Executive Order. The Order calls for the federal government, which administers some 140 programs that impact the Great Lakes, to coordinate its efforts. It also calls for a broad-based Regional Collaboration. Leavitt suggested coordinating work behind priorities established by the Great Lakes Governors.
Speech | Great Lakes homepage

$15-million to protect and restore America’s watersheds

Photo of Administrator Leavitt in Iowa announcing watershed grantsFourteen watersheds - representing 17 states - are eligible for the Targeted Watersheds Grant Program in 2004. The selected areas represent more than 20,000 square miles of rivers, lakes and streams across the United States. Administrator Mike Leavitt traveled to the Upper Mississippi watershed to announce the grants.
News release
| More ... | Iowa Showcase

Paying tribute to patriots

In a July 4 speech to participants at the 2004 Freedom Festival at Brigham Young University, Mike Leavitt honored all defenders of democracy and freedom, from our Founding Fathers, to the "Greatest Generation", to this year's Freedom Award winners.
Speech

Taking the pulse of the planet

The American Meteorological Society was introduced to GEOSS -- Global Earth Observation System of Systems -- an effort by the United States and more than 50 other nations to measure the environmental pulse of Planet Earth.
More ... | Speech

Record $75.4 Million in Brownfields Grants

Photo of Administrator Leavitt with Milwaukee Mayor Tom BarrettCommunities in 42 states and Puerto Rico will share more than $75 million in EPA Brownfields grants to help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites, turning them from problem properties to productive community use. The grants were announced at a Milwaukee brownfields site.
More ... | News release | comunicado de prensa

Administrator Leavitt on "Ask the White House"

Mike LeavittAdministrator Mike Leavitt answered questions from the public on "Ask the White House". The Administrator tapped into the interactive answer session via laptop while meeting with Great Lakes States governors. Transcript

Clean Air Rules of 2004: The Next Chapter in America's Commitment to Clean Air

Administrator Mike Leavitt announced the Clean Air Rules of 2004, a suite of actions that, taken together, will produce one of the most productive periods of air quality improvement in the nation's history.
More information | Speech

 

EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt

"I subscribe to an environmental philosophy called Enlibra. It's a Latin derivative meaning "to move toward balance." The eight Enlibra principles form the prism through which I view environmental issues."

-- Mike Leavitt, December 2, 2003

Enlibra principles

500-Day Strategic Plan

My goal is to increase the velocity of environmental progress by implementing "a better way." In my introductory remarks in December, I referenced my practice of using a 500-day plan. Since then, I have repeatedly articulated many of the elements of that plan. I have posted my 500-day plan here because I feel it is important that everyone understand how those pieces fit into the larger plan, and how that plan aligns with the operating and strategic plans of the Agency.
500-Day Plan | En español

FY 2005 budget empowers Agency

President Bush's 2005 budget provides $7.76 billion for the Environmental Protection Agency, a $133 million increase over the 2004 budget request. "With the President's budget, we can accelerate environmental protection -- protecting our land, cleaning our air and cleansing our water -- efficiently, effectively and without impairing the economy," said EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt.
Remarks | News release | EPA budget, goals and performance

Inaugural speech: Seek collaboration at the "productive middle"

In his first speech after being sworn in as EPA Administrator, Mike Leavitt outlined to EPA employees his guiding principles and conveyed his plans and aspirations for the Agency, pledging to replace conflict with common sense and collaboration. "Real environmental problem-solving takes place in the productive center, not at the emotional extremes," he said. "The productive center is the place where the best ideas compete and a fair process for decision-making exists."
Inaugural message | Enlibra Principles

 

 

 
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