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Dozens of demonstrators protest outside a meeting of the Environmental Protection Agency against featured speaker California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wednesday Sept. 30, 2009 in Los Angeles. The group was protesting proposed budget cuts by the governor.

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  1. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson speaks during a news conference following her keynote speech at the second Governors' Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009.
  2. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson speaks during the second Governors' Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009. The event is hosted by California's Arnold Schwarzenegger and chief executives of other states.
  3. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson speaks during the second Governors' Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009. California's Arnold Schwarzenegger and chief executives of other states hosted the event.
  4. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson speaks during the second Governors' Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009. California's Arnold Schwarzenegger and chief executives of other states hosted the event.
  5. Dozens of demonstrators protest outside a meeting of the Environmental Protection Agency against featured speaker California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wednesday Sept. 30, 2009 in Los Angeles. The group was protesting proposed budget cuts by the governor.
  6. WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 15: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson (R) and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood hold a press briefing to announce new fuel economy standards at the White House September 15, 2009 in Washington, DC. According to the Department of Transportation, the program would require the overall light-duty vehicle fleet to reach 35.5 miles per gallon in model year 2016.
  7. WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 15: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson (R) and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood hold a press briefing to announce new fuel economy standards at the White House September 15, 2009 in Washington, DC. According to the Department of Transportation, the program would require the overall light-duty vehicle fleet to reach 35.5 miles per gallon in model year 2016.
  8. WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 15: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson (R) and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood hold a press briefing to announce new fuel economy standards at the White House September 15, 2009 in Washington, DC. According to the Department of Transportation, the program would require the overall light-duty vehicle fleet to reach 35.5 miles per gallon in model year 2016.
  9. WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 15: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson (L) and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood hold a press briefing to announce new fuel economy standards in the near-empty Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House September 15, 2009 in Washington, DC. According to the Department of Transportation, the program would require the overall light-duty vehicle fleet to reach 35.5 miles per gallon in model year 2016.
  10. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, right, accompanied by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, speaks to reporters in the White House briefing room in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, about a plan by the Obama Administration to require better gas mileage for new cars and trucks and tougher rules on vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.
  11. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson meets with reporters in the White House briefing room in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, to discuss a plan by the Obama Administration to require better gas mileage for new cars and trucks and tougher rules on vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.
  12. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, right, accompanied by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, gestures while speaking to reporters in the White House briefing room in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, about a plan by the Obama Administration to require better gas mileage for new cars and trucks and tougher rules on vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.
  13. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, right, accompanied by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, gestures while speaking to reporters in the White House briefing room in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, about a plan by the Obama Administration to require better gas mileage for new cars and trucks and tougher rules on vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.
  14. On Monday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized Applied Materials with a 2009 Green Power Leadership Award. Applied Materials was distinguished as one of the country's leading green power purchasers and one of only three organizations nationwide to receive a Leadership Award for the on-site generation of green power. An example of one of the company's on-site solar power applications is the 2 megawatt rooftop-and parking lot-based solar array system at Applied Materials' research campus in CA that consists of approximately 8,000 wafer-based solar panels and represents one of the largest corporate solar power installations in the United States.
  15. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, right, pitches in to help Kris Smart, left, and other volunteers spread mulch and spruce up Kilbourne Park's community gardens, Friday, Sept. 11, 2009 in Chicago. Volunteers across America joined together in the National Day of Service on the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the U.S.
  16. WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 10: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks as (L-R) Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, (Obama), Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (3rd-R) look on as he meets with members of the Cabinet in the Cabinet Room of the White House on September 10, 2009 in Washington, DC. Obama spoke to reporters following the meeting, while accepting the apology of Rep. Joe Wilson's (R-SC) outburst yesterday at the joint session of Congress.

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