Quotes by Gina McCarthy

Gina McCarthy

Any first-generation technology will. But we are looking at carbon the same way we look at every pollutant under the Clean Air Act; we look for the new technologies that are available. We recognize that these power plants are going to be around for decades.

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Generations

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But I will tell you that I didn’t go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don’t plan to in the future.

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Done

Waiting

But just [proposing the standard] puts companies on notice that if you’re looking to construct a new natural-gas or coal facility, you really need to pay attention to these. This is what they should be designing new facilities toward as soon as this proposal hits the streets.

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Design

Needs

Climate change is the greatest threat of our time.

Change

Climate

Threat

Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than 40 years. The American people know better.

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Law

Years

EPA gets to set a standard for new. For the existing, EPA sets guidelines for what we think is appropriate, but then states develop plans that work for them, taking into consideration their specific energy mix.

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Thinking

Even if there’s controversy, I’m going to make the decision, and people are going to be happy in one instance and unhappy in the next. But that’s the job I’ve been given and the job I’m going to embrace.

Decision

Jobs

People

Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends.

Climate

Environment

Pollution

I cannot shy away from controversy. I don’t know if it’s my Irish blood, but I love it.

Blood

Controversy

Shy

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.

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People

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Keys

Law

Levels

Moving

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Quotes by Gina McCarthy

Gina McCarthy

Any first-generation technology will. But we are looking at carbon the same way we look at every pollutant under the Clean Air Act; we look for the new technologies that are available. We recognize that these power plants are going to be around for decades.

But I will tell you that I didn’t go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don’t plan to in the future.

But just [proposing the standard] puts companies on notice that if you’re looking to construct a new natural-gas or coal facility, you really need to pay attention to these. This is what they should be designing new facilities toward as soon as this proposal hits the streets.

Climate change is the greatest threat of our time.

Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than 40 years. The American people know better.

EPA gets to set a standard for new. For the existing, EPA sets guidelines for what we think is appropriate, but then states develop plans that work for them, taking into consideration their specific energy mix.

Even if there’s controversy, I’m going to make the decision, and people are going to be happy in one instance and unhappy in the next. But that’s the job I’ve been given and the job I’m going to embrace.

Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends.

I cannot shy away from controversy. I don’t know if it’s my Irish blood, but I love it.

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.

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