President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, former Assistant E.P.A. Administrator Gina McCarthy, was confirmed in her new post by the U.S. Senate in a 59 to 40 vote July 18, 2013.
McCarthy, who spoke at the GLOBE 2012 Conference Session ‘Carbon Frustration’, was the object of a prolonged filibuster by Republican members of the Senate’s concerned about the EPA’s aggressive rulemaking designed to reduce carbon emissions, particularly from large, coal fired electrical power generators.
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