Today, we’re excited to announce our first keynote speaker for Power Shift 2011: EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson!

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The movement for a clean and just energy future has many heroes, but few have been as tenacious and unyielding as Lisa Jackson has been in her mission to improve public health, advance environmental justice, and bring science back to the Environmental Protection Agency.

At Power Shift ‘09, she spoke to us as the first African American Administrator of the EPA – newly appointed by the first African American President – whose election, she told us, “changed the face of environmentalism.” After years of an EPA co-opted by polluters, Administrator Jackson promised us an EPA that would fight for us: “EPA, my friends, is back on the job… Science has been resurrected and it will guide our actions every single day.”

She’s been so successful, that now she and the EPA are under attack by Congress and corporate polluters. She has been a powerful voice and unwavering ally for Environmental Justice, working to reign in pollution from Big Oil and Coal and protect our health, communities, and future.

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Lisa Jackson has been instrumental in making Environmental Justice a top-priority across the EPA: increasing support for communities most impacted by the disproportionate exposure to environmental toxins and hazards. Whether she is visiting high-schools in a community to learn about new clean energy innovations or she’s holding it down in front of Congress while they try to take EPA authority to regulate greenhouse gases, her commitment to a just and clean energy future is evident.

For more on all the awesome things Lisa Jackson has accomplished while in office visit the “Go Lisa, Go” section at Checktheweather.net.

Throughout the history of the Environmental Protection Agency communities faced differential attention and treatment based on class and/or race. By prioritizing Environmental Justice Communities, Lisa Jackson is standing in solidarity to address the Corporate Interest that is polluting our democracy, our communities attacking the working class and.

No other EPA Administrator has earned and received the same amount of trust and support from the Environmental Justice and Environmental Community.

Her eloquent and pervasive speeches leave you feeling like our reflection is the new face of environmentalism and the time to take action to save our health, communities and democracy is now.

As Administrator Jackson told us in 2009, “No major social change has advanced in our history without a Power Shift… Your generation not only has power but it has expertise.” The new face of environmentalism is here, and the time to take action to save our health, our communities and our democracy is now. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.