As the House Oversight Committee met to look into what steps the Environmental Protection Agency took in relation to a gold and copper mine in Alaska, EPA administrator Gina McCarthy admitted that some of the information and emails they are
On Monday, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy briefed reporters on the latest action the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking under the Clean Air Act to advanced the Obama administration’s climate Action plan. According to McCarthy it is a “moral obligation”
The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility took a swipe at the EPA for sending bureaucrat Gina McCarthy on an greenhouse gas generating five city tour for Earth Day. Administrator McCarthy will undertake a greenhouse gas laden week-long tour that
On Monday’s “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, EPA administrator Gina McCarthy made an appearance to tout the agency’s efforts to reduce carbon pollution and what she called both the biggest public health and economic challenge the country faces. Follow
In a sweeping 370 plus page report, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy and Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) Jo Ellen Carcy submitted a proposed rule change for how water is regulated in the United States–effectively expanding
On Thursday House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) issued a subpoena to Environment Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy for documents related to the agency’s unprecedented use of an obscure section of the Clean Water Act to
If a man’s home is his castle, then his land is his kingdom. Property boundaries, of course, must be respected, and trespassing across them becomes a legitimate matter of government’s concern. So, too, if you build a huge bonfire that
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy at the National Press Club
By DINA CAPPIELLOAssociated PressWASHINGTONLinking global warming to public health, disease and extreme weather, the Obama administration pressed ahead Friday with tough requirements to limit carbon pollution from new power plants, despite protests from industry and from Republicans that it would
President Barack Obama, who is planning to implement regulations through executive orders, sent two representatives from his administration to a House Energy and Commerce’s subcommittee hearing this week. Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY) chairman of the House Energy and Commerce’s subcommittee on
Barack Obama is moving full speed ahead with his climate agenda, bypassing Congress by pushing regulatory actions and executive orders. A crop of regulations at the Environmental Protection Agency intends to restrict pollution from new and existing power plants by implementing
On Thursday, all eight Republican Senators on the Environmental and Public Works Committee did not show up for a committee vote on the nomination of Gina McCarthy, President Barack Obama’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency. The Hill noted the
As Republicans boycotted a hearing for Gina McCarthy to head of the EPA, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., went off on her missing colleagues…
On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled its “Tier 3” rule to lower sulfer in gasoline by 2017 that critics said would make national gas prices go up like gas prices in California, a state already burdened by similar environmental
White House: President Obama nominates Ernest Moniz as the next Secretary of Energy, Gina McCarthy as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Sylvia Mathews Burwell as Director of the Office of Management and Budget. March 4, 2013.
One of Barack Obama’s leading choices to take over the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is already asserting that she will make efforts to reduce climate change her top priority. Gina McCarthy, who is presently EPA Assistant Administrator for the Office
