By Margaret Kriz Hobson
Nancy Sutley came to the Obama administration with a decidedly beyond-the-Beltway perspective. Before being named chairwoman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, she was deputy mayor for energy and environment in Los Angeles and a member of the board of directors of Southern California's Metropolitan Water District.
Sutley peppers her conversations with California stories. Explaining why she thinks the nation needs a plan for coping with climate change, Sutley talked about the headaches that rising sea levels could cause local governments. "My last job was with the city of Los Angeles, which owns the Port of Los Angeles," she said. "The port is at sea level. So we've got to think about the impacts on those facilities. The federal government needs to help local governments develop a forward-looking strategy to deal with adapting to climate change."
From 1999 to 2003, Sutley was deputy secretary for policy and intergovernmental relations at the California Environmental Protection Agency. During the Clinton administration, she was first a senior policy adviser to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's regional administrator in San Franciscoand later a special assistant to EPA Administrator Carol Browner in Washington.
Sutley, who holds a master's degree in public policy from Harvard, sat down with National Journal shortly before heading to Copenhagen for the U.N. conference on climate change. Following are excerpts from that interview.
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