{"id":2603,"date":"2010-08-18T12:33:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T19:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unrbep.org\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2010-08-18T12:33:33","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T19:33:33","slug":"epa-chief-cites-e-waste-as-a-top-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/epa-chief-cites-e-waste-as-a-top-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA Chief Cites E-Waste as a Top Priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s\u00a0administrator Lisa Jackson\u00a0said that the prevention and proper management of e-waste is <a href=\"http:\/\/yosemite.epa.gov\/opa\/admpress.nsf\/0\/C94F5F47E03ECC668525778200642318\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>one of the agency\u2019s top six newly announced global priorities<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The other five priorities were reducing carbon emissions, improving air quality, improving water quality, reducing toxics exposures and building stronger institutional frameworks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jackson\u2019s comments follow the release of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalleader.com\/2010\/08\/13\/gao-report-advises-federal-role-to-manage-e-waste-exports\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>a report from the Government Accounting Office <\/strong><\/a>entitled <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gao.gov\/Products\/GAO-10-626\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Electronic Waste: Considerations for Promoting Environmentally Sound Reuse and Recycling<\/strong><\/a>. <\/em>The report addresses the management and trade of hazardous electronic waste, urging EPA to stem the massive flow of U.S. e-waste overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Read the complete article at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalleader.com\/2010\/08\/18\/epa-chief-cites-e-waste-as-a-top-priority\/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Leader<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s\u00a0administrator Lisa Jackson\u00a0said that the prevention and proper management of e-waste is one of the agency\u2019s top six newly announced global priorities.\u00a0 The other five priorities were reducing carbon emissions, improving air quality, improving water quality, reducing toxics exposures and building stronger institutional frameworks.\u00a0 Jackson\u2019s comments follow the release of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/epa-chief-cites-e-waste-as-a-top-priority\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EPA Chief Cites E-Waste as a Top Priority<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2604,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}