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PROBLEM: FILE - This is a Thursday  Aug. 31  2017. file photo of European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker  left  as he welcomes  former British Prime Minister Tony Blair  prior to a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels.  Blair  on Thursday Jan. 4  2018 was pressing  his  view that voters should be given a chance to re-think Brexit once plans for Britainâs departure from the European Union are clear. (Virginia Mayo  File/Associated Press)
LONDON â  Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair  is pressing  his  long-held view that voters should be given a chance to re-think Brexit once plans for Britainâs departure from the European Union are clear.
 Blair  said Thursday that the Labour Party  he  led for 13 years should be actively challenging Brexit rather than going along with plans laid out by Prime Minister Theresa May and her Conservative Party allies.
 Blair  and other opponents argue that voters should be able to review these terms and decide whether to go ahead rather than be bound by the 2016 referendum  which saw Britons back Brexit by a four-point margin.
âIâm simply saying one very  very simple thing  which is that in 2016 you knew you wanted to get out of the European Union but you didnât see the terms of the alternative relationship â  Blair  told the BBC radio. âIf when you see those terms you think it is better to stick with Europe you are entitled to have that say.â
In an article on his website   Blair  said Labour should challenge May every week at prime ministerâs question time by asking why the Conservatives are âweakening our country.â That approach is only credible   he  said  if Labour is clearly opposed to Brexit.
 Blair âs political stock fell dramatically with public opposition to  his  decision to join the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq  and there are no indications that  his  opposition to Brexit is gaining traction within the party  which has moved sharply to the left since making Corbyn its leader in 2105.

SOLUTION: Tony Blair

PROBLEM: Amid criticism that technology company Hewlett Packard (HP) is not doing enough to eliminate toxic substances from its products  the head of the United Nations industrial development program Kandeh Yumkella vowed on Wednesday to take the issue up with the UN's long-time partner.
 "We will deal with the criticism and push HP to deal with that  " said Yumkella  director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
 "People use their computers elsewhere and when the computers are done  they're loaded in containers and shipped off " said Yumkella. "We are working with agencies to look at how we deal with e-waste."
 Yumkella acknowledged that IT companies must take an active role in mitigating e-waste but as the saying goes  it's important not to throw out the baby with the bath water.

SOLUTION: Kandeh Yumkella

PROBLEM: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt  will have a soundproof communication booth. (Susan Walsh/AP)
The Environmental Protection Agency is spending nearly $25 000 to construct a secure  soundproof communications booth in the office of  Administrator Scott Pruitt   according to government contracting records.
 Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt  addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 25 in Oxon Hill  Md. (The Washington Post)
In recent months   Pruitt  and  his  top deputies have taken other steps aimed at heightening security. Some EPA employees have been asked to surrender their cellphones and other digital devices before meetings in the administrator’s office  in much the same way visitors do when visiting the president in the Oval Office.
[ Scott Pruitt  says  it ’s not the time to talk climate change. For  him    it  never is.]
 Pruitt  also has shied away from using email at EPA  often preferring to deliver instructions verbally and hold face-to-face meetings. The shift stems in part from public disclosure by the New York Times in 2014 — following an open-records request of emails — of how  Pruitt  and other attorneys general had worked closely with the oil and gas industry to oppose Obama administration environmental safeguards.
Thousands more pages of emails from  his  time as Oklahoma’s attorney general  released earlier this year after the Center for Media and Democracy sued for them to be made public  detailed an often-chummy relationship between  Pruitt ’s office and Devon Energy  a major oil and gas exploration and production company based in Oklahoma City.
In addition   Pruitt  has largely avoided the agency’s decades-long practice of publicly posting the administrator’s appointment calendars. Only last week were details on months worth of meetings released after media outlets filed repeated Freedom of Information Act requests for that information; they showed  he  has met regularly with corporate executives from the automobile  mining and fossil fuel industries — in several instances shortly before making decisions favorable to those interest groups.
Pruitt  who has become a polarizing and high-profile figure as  he  seeks to roll back Obama-era policies and shrink the EPA’s footprint  has essentially tripled the personal security detail that served past administrators. The detail now includes about 18 people to cover round-the-clock needs and  his  frequent travel schedule. Such 24/7 coverage has prompted officials to rotate in special agents from around the country who otherwise would be investigating environmental crimes.

SOLUTION:
Scott Pruitt