article_snippet: Brian Deese, a senior adviser to Obama, told reporters that the president's mandate is a 'triple win' for the environment, the economy, and the taxpayer.
article_snippet: Yet it was unclear exactly how either the government or private companies planned to meet it targets. '
article_snippet: The potential from this announcement,' Deese said during a call with reporters, 'is significant both because we can drive substantial reductions across the entire federal footprint and because we efforts to do that leverage both innovation and investment in the private sector.'
article_snippet: Certainly our hope is that our are laying forth template that other countries could also learn from and look at as well,' Deese noted.