10 Questions for Lisa Jackson

Advice and Counsel
During her Senate confirmation hearings in January 2009, Jackson pledged to make scientific expertise the basis of EPA's decisions. "Science must be the backbone of the what EPA does," she told the Senate committee. Jackson also told the Senate committee that environmental protection and economic growth should co-exist. Here, Jackson speaks to a staff member during a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill on May 27, 2010. The committee called EPA Administrator and others to testify about the oil spill caused by Transocean's Deepwater Horizon drilling platform that sank while drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico.