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Senate approves Gina McCarthy as EPA chief despite Republican protests
Senate approves Gina McCarthy as EPA chief despite Republican protests
Republicans protest 'draconian' plan to reduce greenhouse gas McCarthy will be tasked with directing at environment agency
The Senate gave grudging approval on Thursday to the key executor of Barack Obama's sweeping new climate change plan, voting to confirm Gina McCarthy as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
The 59-40 vote, after a four-month standoff by Republicans, puts McCarthy in direct charge of implementing Obama's strategy of using the agency's powers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.
The prospect – centred on plans to cut emissions from existing power plants – has brought ferocious protests from Republicans and industry associations, and accusations that Obama and the EPA was waging a "war on coal".
"The EPA will play a pivotal role in the execution and implementation of the president's recently announced climate plan," David Vitter, the Louisiana Republican who led the boycott of McCarthy said in a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday. He called the climate plan "dramatic and draconian".
McCarthy spent the last four years at the EPA...
Republicans protest 'draconian' plan to reduce greenhouse gas McCarthy will be tasked with directing at environment agency
The Senate gave grudging approval on Thursday to the key executor of Barack Obama's sweeping new climate change plan, voting to confirm Gina McCarthy as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
The 59-40 vote, after a four-month standoff by Republicans, puts McCarthy in direct charge of implementing Obama's strategy of using the agency's powers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.
The prospect – centred on plans to cut emissions from existing power plants – has brought ferocious protests from Republicans and industry associations, and accusations that Obama and the EPA was waging a "war on coal".
"The EPA will play a pivotal role in the execution and implementation of the president's recently announced climate plan," David Vitter, the Louisiana Republican who led the boycott of McCarthy said in a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday. He called the climate plan "dramatic and draconian".
McCarthy spent the last four years at the EPA...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/18/senate-approves-epa-administrator-republicans
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I knew this was going to happen as soon as her sister got on "The View".
