marjorie. >> caller: can you hear me all right?the way you were describing this training, it was like being recertified as a teacher. in iowa we have debris certification program for teachers. so that they can keep up their teaching certificate and i just wondered, in the training of these tax preparers, is this a federal program or a state program or how does that work? >> host: marjorie, how you do your taxes? do you use a preparer? do you think this is a good idea? >> caller: yeah, because then i don't have to study the whole thing because i have other things to do. >> guest: well, i think it is a program that will be administered by the internal revenue service for federal income tax preparation. there are some states that are already getting into or have been regulating return preparation for preparers and their state, and one of the things i think that we are going to have to do is work out coordination with the state so prepares are having conflicting rules to abide by both the federal rules and the stables and we will be wo

host: marjorie, your honor. -- you are on.acher -- in iowa, we have a certification program for the teachers of they can keep up their certification. i was just wondering about this training for these tax preparers, is this a federal or state program? host: how you do your taxes? do use a prepared? caller: yes. host: do you think this is a good idea? caller: yeah, that i do not have to study the whole thing because i have other things to do. host: great, thank you. guest: it is a program that will be administered by the internal revenue service for federal income-tax preparation. there are some states that are already getting into, or have been regulating return preparation for prepares in their states. one of the things we will have to do is work of coordination with the status of the preparers will not have conflicting roles to abide by, but both the federal and state rules. we will be working that out over the next few months. the testing itself is going to be a one-time thing. once you have taken the entry test, then you'l

host: marjorie, your honor. -- you are on.g like being a teacher -- in iowa, we have a certification program for the teachers of they can keep up their certification. i was just wondering about this training for these tax preparers, is this a federal or state program? host: how you do your taxes? do use a prepared? caller: yes. host: do you think this is a good idea? caller: yeah, that i do not have to study the whole thing because i have other things to do. host: great, thank you. guest: it is a program that will be administered by the internal revenue service for federal income-tax preparation. there are some states that are already getting into, or have been regulating return preparation for prepares in their states. one of the things we will have to do is work of coordination with the status of the preparers will not have conflicting roles to abide by, but both the federal and state rules. we will be working that out over the next few months. the testing itself is going to be a one-time thing. once you have taken the entry

women like sill vea earl and marjorie stoneman-douglas and jane goodal who are leading advocates forhe environment and for protecting our health. and, of course, rachel carson who has a room named in her honor at epa headquarters. and who was a transformative figure not just in the history of epa but in our country's moment of turning to address the urgency of environmental challenges. her book "silver spring" changed environmentalism forever. and i don't think her -- it's a coincidence that a book that came out in the '60s by 1970, there was such a thing as the u.s. environmental protection agency. so obviously these women played an important role in epa's life and in mine at least indirectly. but you need to know a little bit about me as well. and it's the thing that i hate doing the most, so bear with me. i started at epa over 20 years ago. and i will make you laugh and say i thought i would just go because as a young professional woman the federal government was and remains a wonderful place to have a career. and i thought i'll go for a few years. i'll punch my ticket. and then i