Regina McCarthy is an American environmental health and air quality expert. She served as the 13th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2013 to 2017. In early 2020, McCarthy started as president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council. President-Elect Joe Biden announced that he would be nominating McCarthy as the first National Climate Advisor.
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Regina McCarthy is an American environmental health and air quality expert. She served as the 13th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2013 to 2017. In early 2020, McCarthy started as president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council. On December 17, 2020, President-Elect Joe Biden announced that he would be nominating McCarthy as the first National Climate Advisor where she will advise Biden on domestic climate change policy and lead the White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy. McCarthy was born in Brighton, Boston, and raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1976, as a Bachelor of Arts in Social Anthropology. She later attended Tufts University, where she received a Master of Science in Environmental Health Engineering and Planning and Policy in 1981. McCarthy held the position of Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation from 2009-13.
Prior to 2009, she served as Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. She held several top positions in the civil service of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, including Deputy Secretary of the Massachusetts Office of Commonwealth Development and Undersecretary for policy for Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs from 1999 to 2003. McCarthy has worked on environmental issues at the state and local levels and has developed policies on economic growth, energy, transportation and the environment. On September 11, 2015, 26 U.S. representatives introduced a resolution impeaching McCarthy. It was referred to the House Judiciary Committee and died. On May 27, 2015,. McCarthy finalized a rule under the Clean Water Act which proposed a new definition of the definition of ‘waters of the United States’
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