Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Obama Environmental Chief Says Trump Rollbacks Won't Wash
President Barack Obama’s former environment chief bemoaned Tuesday the Trump administration’s efforts to roll back environmental oversight, but said moves to undo his climate legacy would not withstand legal challenges.
“We need to make sure people understand that pronouncements don’t equal the law,” Gina McCarthy, the Environmental Protection Agency’s administrator during Obama’s second term, said in an interview at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was accepting the Carnot Prize from the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. . .