EPA Chief Lisa Jackson Returns to Holy Cross, Focus on Gulf Restoration

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, a Global Green friend, paid a return visit yesterday to the Holy Cross Neighborhood to meet with community and environmental leaders to discuss setting up the new Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force. Ms. Jackson’s organizing meeting, held at the Greater Little Zion Missionary Baptist Church only a few blocks from the Holy Cross Project, was reported by the Times-Picayune’s Mark Schleifstein in “Gulf restoration plan should be home-grown, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson says”:

“The president has made clear that he believes these restoration plans, in order to be successful, have to come from the Gulf to Washington and not be imposed from Washington onto the Gulf community,” Jackson said Tuesday during a morning meeting at Greater Little Zion Missionary Baptist Church in the Lower 9th Ward.

“We’re counting on the people who know these areas best, the people who work these areas, who work these issues, who know what it takes to build a coalition of support around something the Gulf Coast has never had.”

 

via globalgreen.org