EPA chief: preventing climate change the opportunity of a lifetime

[peoli]

President Barack Obama's top environmental official wasted no time Tuesday taking on opponents of the administration's plan to crack down on global warming pollution.

In her first speech as the head of EPA, Gina McCarthy told an audience gathered at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that curbing climate-altering pollution will spark business innovation, grow jobs and strengthen the economy.

The message was classic Obama, who has long said that the environment and the economy aren't in conflict and has sold ambitious plans to reduce greenhouse gases as a means to jumpstart a clean energy economy.

McCarthy signaled that she was ready for the fight, saying that the agency would continue issuing new rules, regardless of claims by Republicans and industry groups that under Obama the EPA has been the most aggressive and overreaching since it was formed more than 40 years ago.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jul/30/epa-chief-climate-change-speech

[PDJane]

1. That's good. I hope they carry through.

It has got to change.

[Mnemosyne]

2. Saw a bumper sticker today, "We change or the climate does." Profound, imo. I hope she comes out

swinging now.

[AverageJoe90]

3. Major kudos to Chief McCarthy for coming out and telling the truth as it is. n/t