++Gina McCarthy is one of the reasons I am hopeful about President Obama's climate change policies. As head of the EPA, she impresses me with her policy savvy and skill at negotiating the climate change regulations with the states.
++Check out her video interview on Huffington Post.
++She is one of those personnel picks that I appalled President Obama for. It's just the same as with Dr.Moniz as head of the Department of Energy.
++The EPA Chief is confident that the regulations announced by President Obama will be done in place by mid-summer. She has already received 3 million comments on the proposed regulations. The goal is to have a 30% reduction in greenhouse gases produced by power plants by 2030.
++Ms.McCarthy said that Mitch McConnell's call for the states to ignore the EPA has fallen on deaf ears. The intense consultations with the states continues and has become more intense as each state is debating the right mix of energy sources to reach the goal.
++She is confident that the regulations will be legally and technically sound. She also dismissed any potential GOP successor to President Obama disrupting the EPA's work.
++She said the low carbon future is inevitable. She pointed to the solar energy sector has the greatest job creator in our economy right now. The reason the EPA regulations will be implemented is that they have shown that it pays off for the consumer to have renewables.
++She doesn't come of as glib or spinning. She comes off as someone who in marinated in the subject and the state of all the negotiations.
++She did mention that coal will still be 30% of electricity generation by 2030.
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