Gina McCarthy
Gina McCarthy
Regina "Gina" McCarthyis an American public administrator and an environmental health and air quality expert, currently administrator for the United States Environmental Protection Agency. On March 4, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated McCarthy to replace Lisa Jackson as head of the EPA. Confirmation hearings started April 11, 2013. On July 18, 2013, she was confirmed after a record 136-day confirmation fight, becoming the face of Obama's global warming/climate change initiative...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
CountryUnited States of America
It actually meets a standard agreed to by New York, Connecticut and the EPA that doesn't need to be in place until 2014.
Our issue is that we didn't issue the permit or inspect the site, ... We saw the basin on the news, and saw the application on the desk for that. When we saw the mudslide, we knew something had to be done.
We had a lot of rain and a lot of luck. I am not pointing fingers at Massachusetts but the cards did not fall for them as they fell for us.
You can go 15 miles from here and see bald eagles along the Connecticut River. You can go outside this building and see peregrine falcons hunting in Bushnell Park. They nest on the Travelers Tower.
We?ll tell Islander East that the Long Island Sound is not the Wild West, ... The costs for the state of Connecticut couldn?t be higher.
We're going to drive the nation into doing what it has to do about climate change. Times have changed, and we have to get the hint.
Islander East insists on a pipeline route that travels through some of the most precious and fragile natural resource areas of Long Island Sound,
Congress approved $400 million for wildlife preservation, but it didn't stop there and thank goodness it didn't. They wanted us to consider how we were spending that money.
Water was inches from the top at many dams and there were a lot of close calls, but I hope people in Connecticut knew we were on top of it.
We need an international solution to the challenge of climate change, there's no question about it. But the real key is, can you actually get that - or get that solution - without the US' involvement? Can you not lead domestically, and expect the rest of the world will take action... the US needs to lead, we need to be out there.
People are not running to build coal facilities because of the price of natural gas, but we do see them being constructed, and there is an interest in fuel diversity, so we took the exercise pretty seriously.
Transparency is all about letting in and embracing new ideas, new technology and new approaches. No individual, entity or agency, no matter how smart, how old, or how experienced, can afford to stop learning.
Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends.
I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it.