show bio Carol Browner

Carol Browner was the longest serving administrator in the history of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), overseeing the $7 billion, 18,000 employee agency responsible for the protection of the public’s air, water, and communities. Not only did she spearhead the Food Quality Protection Act, but she also implemented the strongest-ever national air pollution standards. She is currently one of four principals at the Albright Group LLC, a unique combination of international negotiators and seasoned diplomats that strive to assist clients in forging relationships with governments, businesses, and organizations. Browner is now the assistant to President Obama for Energy and Climate Change.

Crisis of Climate Change
Date: 11/16/2006

Carol Browner, the former director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), discusses the crisis of climate change and the need to take action, regardless of policy-makers’ doubts. She said, “We face an environmental, a public health, and an economic challenge in global warming and climate change unlike anything we have faced thus far.” Browner has spent her entire career dedicated to preserving and improving the environment and she marveled at the changes that have been made since she began her career. She stated that “American rivers are cleaner, the skies are clearer, and toxic sites are being cleaned up.” However, Browner warned about the advice of anti-environmentalists, who claim that higher environmental standards won’t work or that they will hurt the economy. She said that there have always been “nay-sayers,” but standards she established allowed the economy and society to build around, while protecting the environmental rights of every person.

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