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
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.
I definitely challenge people. But hopefully, I am working harder than anybody else, and so people won't resent the fact that I want them to work hard, as well.
The challenges are large and we have to work together.
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.
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.
You are to be commended. You have been patient. You have been dogged.
It is the wettest month in 104 years. It was 16 inches of rain, we have had 7 dams break, though there was no significant loss of property in those events.
It's about the health and well-being of our children and the health and well-being of our world. Kids need to reconnect to the outdoors.
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.
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.
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.
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.