Andrea Seastrand: “It was interesting, I have just been appointed to the Speaker's Environmental Task Force. I am serving on the steering…”

“It was interesting, I have just been appointed to the Speaker's Environmental Task Force. I am serving on the steering committee. And during the recess, I naturally organized a task force for my two countries of my district and invited, as a jumping off period, a first meeting, some 28 people from different agencies and local groups that are active within the environment. And when you start thinking about this, this is vast. We can have a lot of great discussions, and I am looking forward to our monthly meetings. But it was interesting at that first meeting, an attorney who makes his living on litigation said, I hate to say this because I make my living this way, but I deal every day trying to make sense of the regulations from Washington, DC. And because some of these laws were written some 20, 25 years ago, technology is advanced, science knows so much more, and we need to look at science, we need to look at the technology today and reform and change some of these laws. Not throw them out, but let us change what can fit 1996 for a better way, a better environment.”