Last week the White House announced that Nancy Sutley, chairwoman of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and a past speaker at AMWA’s Water Policy Conferences, would be stepping down from her post in February. Sutley has held the post for five years. In a statement President Obama said Sutley "has played a central role in overseeing many of our biggest environmental accomplishments, including establishing historic new fuel-economy standards that will save consumers money, new national monuments that permanently protect sites unique to our country's rich history and natural heritage, our first comprehensive National Ocean Policy, and our Climate Action Plan that will help leave our children a safer, healthier planet.” A replacement for Sutley has not yet been named.