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Professor Janet McCabe Interview on NPR's Morning Edition
08/21/2018
IU McKinney Law Professor of Practice Janet McCabe was interviewed on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition on August 21 in advance of President Trump’s expected announcement about changes to environmental policy.
In the interview, Professor McCabe discussed some of the consequences of the Trump administration’s proposal to formally replace the Clean Power Plan. The change represents a vast overhaul of climate change regulations, including rules Professor McCabe helped to write as the Acting Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation at the EPA from 2013-17. She was nominated by President Barack Obama to be Assistant Administrator of that office.
Obama's plan was aimed to curb climate change by moving the power sector away from coal and towards renewable energy sources, cutting carbon emissions from the nation's power plants by about one-third by 2030. The Trump administration’s Affordable Clean Energy Rule would give individual states more authority to make their own plans for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants.
“The entire approach of the rule is different,” Professor McCabe said.
Professor McCabe is Assistant Director for Policy and Implementation at IU’s Environmental Resilience Institute. She is also a Senior Law Fellow with the Environmental Law and Policy Center.
