Ron Arnold, May 16, 2013
Who is Jon Powers? That's not a spoof on "Atlas Shrugged," which begins with "Who is John Galt?" -- but a serious question about one of the more obscure power brokers in the Executive Office of the President.
Powers is a former U.S. Army officer who was appointed last year by President Obama to a position with the improbable title of federal environmental executive. It suggests a fantasy story -- perhaps "Lord of the Things" -- about a cunning warrior promoted to be nature's CEO. However, Powers' job is anything but a joke.
President Clinton created the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive in 1993, and Obama gave it the job of overseeing implementation of his 2009 executive order on federal sustainability and the GreenGov initiative....To Read More.....
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