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Posted: 1/17/2013 3:03:22 PM EST
FILE - This May 18, 2010 file photo shows National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator Jane Lubchenco testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. The White House says tackling climate change and enhancing energy security will be among President Barack Obama's top priorities in his second term. Obama will have to do that work with new heads of the agencies responsible for the environment. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Environmental Protection chief Lisa Jackson and Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, all have announced they are leaving. Energy Secretary Steven Chu is expected to follow his colleagues out the door in coming weeks. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
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Posted: 1/17/2013 3:03:22 PM EST
FILE- In this April 17, 2012 file photo, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson gestures during an interview with The Associated Press at EPA Headquarters in Washington. The White House says tackling climate change and enhancing energy security will be among President Barack Obama's top priorities in his second term. Obama will have to do that work with new heads of the agencies responsible for the environment. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Environmental Protection chief Lisa Jackson and Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, all have announced they are leaving. Energy Secretary Steven Chu is expected to follow his colleagues out the door in coming weeks. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)
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Posted: 1/17/2013 3:03:22 PM EST
FILE - This Jan. 16, 2013 file photo shows outgoing Interior Secretary Ken Salazar entering the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington. The White House says tackling climate change and enhancing energy security will be among President Barack Obama's top priorities in his second term. Obama will have to do that work with new heads of the agencies responsible for the environment. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Environmental Protection chief Lisa Jackson and Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, all have announced they are leaving. Energy Secretary Steven Chu is expected to follow his colleagues out the door in coming weeks. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Posted: 1/10/2013 8:21:57 PM EST
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson testifies at a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 22, 2011. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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Posted: 12/31/2012 10:34:14 AM EST
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson testifies at a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 22, 2011. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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Posted: 12/30/2012 5:10:14 AM EST
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson testifies at a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 22, 2011. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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Posted: 12/30/2012 5:10:14 AM EST
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson testifies at a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 22, 2011. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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Posted: 12/27/2012 10:08:25 AM EST
FILE - This photo April 17, 2012 file photo shows Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson during an interview with The Associated Press at EPA Headquarters in Washington. Jackson, The Obama administration's chief environmental watchdog, is stepping down after a nearly four-year tenure marked by high-profile brawls over global warming pollution, the Keystone XL oil pipeline, new controls on coal-fired plants and several other hot-button issues that affect the nation's economy and people's health. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)
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Posted: 12/14/2012 2:18:20 PM EST
FILE- In this April 17, 2012 file photo, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson gestures during an interview with The Associated Press at EPA Headquarters in Washington. In its first major regulation since the election, the Obama administration will impose a new air quality standard that reduces by 20 percent the maximum amount of soot released into the air from smokestacks, diesel trucks and other sources of pollution. The Environmental Protection Agency is set to announce the new standard on Friday, meeting a court deadline in a lawsuit by 11 states and public health groups. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)
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Posted: 12/12/2012 1:08:31 PM EST
FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010 file photo, White House Council on Environmental Quality chair Nancy Sutley, left, NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar look out at wetlands from an air boat during a tour of the Delta National Wildlife Refuge on the coast of Louisiana. The tour was held to show areas of opportunity for wetlands restoration and growth along the Louisiana coast after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 she will leave her post at the end of February 2013. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Posted: 6/26/2012 2:43:23 PM EST
FILE In this April 17, 2012 file photo, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson during an interview with The Associated Press at EPA Headquarters in Washington. A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the first-ever regulations aimed at reducing the gases blamed for global warming. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)
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Posted: 6/15/2012 3:00:56 PM EST
FILE - In this June 15, 2011, file photo Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson testifies before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works regarding the Clean Air Act and Public Health on Capitol Hill in Washington. In response to a federal court order requiring the Obama administration to update air quality standards under the Clean Air Act the EPA is proposing new air quality standards to lower the amount of soot that can be released into the air. The long-delayed rule is to be made public on Friday, June 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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Posted: 5/3/2012 7:03:49 PM EST
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson testifies at a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 22, 2011. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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Posted: 1/13/2012 4:55:47 PM EST
Dimock resident Julie Sautner, right, protests in front of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia before an appearance by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson Friday Jan. 13, 2012. Residents of the small northeastern Pennsylvania town of Dimock, at the center of the political fight over natural gas drilling, joined environmental activists from elsewhere to rally Friday outside a conference on urban environmental issues. About a dozen residents of Dimock have sued Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., claiming the energy company caused contamination of wells when it extracted natural gas using a process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)
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Posted: 1/13/2012 4:55:47 PM EST
Dimock resident Victoria Switzer holds a map of the Dimock area as she addresses fellow protestors front of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia before an appearance by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson Friday Jan. 13, 2012. Residents of the small northeastern Pennsylvania town of Dimock, at the center of the political fight over natural gas drilling, joined environmental activists from elsewhere to rally Friday outside a conference on urban environmental issues. About a dozen residents of Dimock have sued Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., claiming the energy company caused contamination of wells when it extracted natural gas using a process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)
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Posted: 1/13/2012 4:55:47 PM EST
Protesters stand in front of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia before an appearance by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson Friday Jan. 13, 2012. Residents of the small northeastern Pennsylvania town of Dimock, at the center of the political fight over natural gas drilling, joined environmental activists from elsewhere to rally Friday outside a conference on urban environmental issues. About a dozen residents of Dimock have sued Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., claiming the energy company caused contamination of wells when it extracted natural gas using a process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)
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Posted: 1/10/2012 5:05:48 PM EST
President Barack Obama and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson wave to the crowd before the president spoke during his visit to the EPA in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Posted: 1/10/2012 5:05:47 PM EST
President Barack Obama talks with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson at the EPA in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Posted: 1/10/2012 3:21:21 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama is introduced by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson (R) before he speaks to employees of the EPA in Washington January 10, 2012. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)
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Posted: 9/22/2011 5:41:44 PM EST
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson is sworn in to testify at a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 22, 2011. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)
