The Future is Sustainability The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency has commissioned a new National Research Council
sustainability study. On the second day in December the United
States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) commemorates four
decades of work on behalf of the environment. On the final day
of November the agency made a special announcement at the Marian
Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Science (NAS)
on the future of the EPA. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson,
along with NAS President Ralph Cicerone, revealed the launch of
a new National Research Council (NRC) study to provide an
operational framework for the EPA to incorporate sustainability
into all its programs. The study will help the agency build upon
its expertise in protecting human health and the environment.
The speech coincided with the Aspen Institute’s unveiling of a
list of the ten ways EPA has strengthened America. The NRC will
produce a Green Book that will focus on energy, water, material
and land issues. In s