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Professor Janet McCabe Comments on Clean Power Plan Repeal on NPR
12/22/2017
Although President Trump’s administration has repealed the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, many fossil fuel companies who fought for such a move are now asking for new regulations.
IU McKinney Law Professor of Practice, Janet McCabe, a former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Clean Air administrator, commented on the move for new rules for a story that aired on National Public Radio (NPR) on December 21. (“Fossil Fuel Industry Pushes for Clean Power Plan Replacement” by Jeff Brady).
Professor McCabe said, “Most people would say we already have run out of time to avoid any impacts of excess carbon in the atmosphere. It’s already warmer. Storms are already more extreme. There’s already sea level rise and more flooding. So we better get busy.”
Professor McCabe served in the EPA first as Principal Deputy, and from 2013-2017 as Acting Assistant Administrator, playing a lead role in framing, shaping and implementing Clean Air Act standards, including the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, and the Clean Power Plan and Ozone standards. A senior fellow at the Environmental Policy and Law Center in Chicago, she has taught Environmental Law as an adjunct professor at the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Department of Public Health. She joined the IU McKinney faculty in Fall 2017.
