After 1993, Mr. Qu headed the environment and resource committee of China's Parliament, the National People's Congress, for 10 years, the Post said.
ROBERT T. STAFFORD -- A Republican senator for 28 years until 1988, he headed the Environment and Public Works Committee and led the overturning of President Reagan's veto of the Clean Water Act.
"We did the right thing for the health of the people who live in Westchester and for the environment," said Thomas J. Abinanti, who heads the legislators' Committee on the Environment and Energy.
"The Obama Administration's pledge to the United Nations today will not see the light of day," Jim Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who heads the Senate's environment and public works committee, and denies the existence of man-made climate change.
After hearing about the mutant trout, Senator Barbara Boxer of California, the Democrat who heads the chamber's Environment and Public Works Committee, asked the federal Fish and Wildlife Service to step in and vet the mining company's scientific research and conclusions.
Possingham takes over from Peter Kareiva, who now heads the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ms Maathai, 64, Kenya's deputy environment minister, heads the Green Belt movement, a group that has planted 30m trees in Africa to help protect the environment.
Among his 30-member Cabinet is first-time Member of Parliament, Catherine McKenna, who will head the recently renamed Environment and Climate Change Department.
On Monday, the deputy head of the Environment Agency, David Rooke, spoke of the need for such measures.
"Right now the buzz is in my head, how the environment is going to be, the future class," he said.
