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...fossil fuels. Beneath the grass-roots action, larger tectonic plates are shifting. Science is attacking the problem more aggressively than ever. So is industry. So are architects and lawmakers and urban planners. The world is awakened to the problem in a way it never has been before. Says Carol Browner, onetime administrator of the EPA: "It's a sea change from where we were on this issue." Here are the ways that sea is shifting the most...
...Carol M. Browner, the longest serving administrator in the history of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), spoke about the dangers of climate change in a speech yesterday that combined science and policy with frequent jabs at critics of the science behind climate change. Speaking to a crowd of 75 at Harvard Law School’s Hauser Hall, Browner, the EPA chief during the entire Clinton administration, said that if “we don’t take action against climate change, we risk being the first generation to pass on to the next generation a problem that...
...SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA GROWTH ALLIANCE V. CAROL BROWNER (1997) Alito's opinion denied an attempt by manufacturers to void the Environmental Protection Agency's regional ozone standards. Alito determined that the agency had acted within its authority in enforcing local Clean Air Act rules, despite concerns that the environmental regulations could significantly affect manufacturers' operating costs...
...that’s not fair. A few of those offended were excruciatingly detailed in their criticism. UCLA assistant professor Tara Browner wrote to The Crimson, “What Larry Summers said, and this is an *exact quote*, was that ‘The genocide of American Indians was coincidental.’ As in it was an accidental by-product of Western European and Euro-American expansion.” Far from an exact quote, Summers never used the word genocide, nor did he say that Europeans did not purposely devastate Native American communities...
...really thick skin as a Native American in the academy,” Browner, the UCLA ethnomusicologist, added...