Obama environmental chief says Trump rollbacks won’t wash
"We need to make sure people understand that pronouncements don't equal the law,"
"You really have to work hard to show the prior administration made a mistake when it made the rules," she said. "Did we get the science wrong? The law wrong? The facts different? I think you're going to see we did a good job, so it's going to be a long time in discussions in the courts, and I think in the end things will continue to move forward."
McCarthy, a fellow at Harvard's
"What we see now is that the clean-energy train in
McCarthy led the
It finalized the Clean Power Plan to reduce carbon emissions from electricity generation, tightened ozone-pollution standards, improved coal-ash disposal, issued rules to protect
Many of those initiatives are in retreat under the Trump administration, which proposed a
"Her career exemplifies the courage, creativity, and commitment required to make great changes in energy policy," Kleinman Center faculty director
McCarthy said the
"I'm still waiting to understand how he's going to improve public health, because so far I've really not heard much of anything from the entire administration other than what is the cost to industry," she said.
The Carnot Prize memorializes the French scientist Sadi Carnot. Previous winners were
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