He would upend the Obama administration's progress on the environment, vowing to "cancel the Paris climate agreement" on global warming.
"If we're really going to make progress on the environment, we have to empower consumers to make more environmental choices," Mr. Johnson said.
If so, let the transition team know that if they're to create a position to highlight the incoming president's commitment to making real progress on the environment, then you might be the right guy.
It is also that there is no agreement on what progress on the environment, or progress in the social sphere, actually mean not, at least, if you are trying to be precise about it.
Under Ms. Jackson — who has said the idea that progress on the environment has to hurt the economy is a "false choice" — the agency declared late last year that greenhouse gases endangered human health and welfare.
And Jeb Bush will be just another stumbling, mumbling Republican candidate for president who is not a scientist, doesn't want to listen to scientists, and may spend as much time undoing years of progress on the environment as the GOP will have spent trying to undo Obama's healthcare law.
"We can't stand idly by and watch what is beginning to look like a cascade of efforts to roll back progress on the environment," said Mark Van Putten, the president of the wildlife federation, which had not joined other environmental groups in their criticism of the administration.
Just as society made progress on the environment when the thinking shifted from the "negative" to the "positive"—from imposing fines to promoting a company's green credentials so too must we shift our thinking about privacy.Despite inBloom's closure, the system may survive.
The Sierra Club accused President George W. Bush's EPA of undoing "decades if not a century of progress on the environment" with such brazen moves as refusing to implement the 1992 Kyoto climate deal.
She credited Mr. da Silva, whom she considers a "living hero" along with Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama, for Brazil's progress on protecting the environment.
