Gina McCarthy is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on May 3, 1954 in Boston, United States. The delay in the nomination was the longest time in which there was no agency chief. Christine Todd Whitman, a former Republican governor of New Jersey and EPA administrator under the presidency of George W. Bush, said: “It’s not about [McCarthy, it’s all about the agency… Republicans lost the presidential election, and must accept that it is President Obama’s decision on the nominee. They have the right to take on the president but Gina McCarthy should get an up-and-down vote.” On the 18th of July 13th, 2013, on July 18, 2013, the Senate was able to confirm McCarthy for the position of 13th administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency by a majority of 59-40 votes, which was largely in line with the lines of party.
On June 25, 2015, McCarthy finalized the Clean Power Plan under the Clean Air Act, seeking to reduce coal use pursuant to the Paris Agreement. Challengers failed to get the regulation stayed by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, but on February 9, 2016, the Supreme Court of the United States voted 5-4 to grant the stay, the first time the Supreme Court had ever stayed a regulation prior to lower court review.
On May 27, 2015, McCarthy finalized a rule under the Clean Water Act which proposed a new detailed and inclusive definition of “waters of the United States”. Thirteen states sued, and U.S. Chief District Judge Ralph R. Erickson issued an injunction blocking the regulation in those states.
She has been an environmental advisor to five Massachusetts governors including the former governor Mitt Romney. From 2004 until 2009, she was the commissioner for the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. In this role, she established an initiative in the region to trade carbon credits to help reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases from power plant.
She was in a number of high-ranking post within the civil service in Massachusetts. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, including the Deputy Secretary for the Massachusetts Office of Commonwealth Development (2003-2004) and undersecretary of policy at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs from 1999 until 2003.
On March 4, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated McCarthy to replace Lisa Jackson as head of the EPA. Confirmation hearings started April 11, 2013. On July 18, 2013, she was confirmed after a record 136-day confirmation fight, becoming the face of Obama’s global warming and climate change initiative.
