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Professor McCabe to Give Testimony at May 21 EPA Hearing
05/20/2019
IU McKinney Law Professor of Practice Janet McCabe will provide testimony at a May 21 hearing of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce in Washington, D.C.
The hearing, scheduled for 10 a.m. in the Rayburn House Office Building, will examine the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent proposal that says limiting mercury and other air toxics from coal and oil-fired power plants is not “appropriate and necessary” under the Clean Air Act. The hearing is entitled, “Undermining Mercury Protections: EPA Endangers Human Health and the Environment.”
Professor McCabe is Professor of Practice at the Indiana University McKinney School of Law and 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.
She spent nearly eight years in the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Air and Radiation, first as the Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator and then as the Acting Assistant Administrator. Before that, she spent two decades working in state government on air quality and other environmental issues, at the Indiana Department of Environmental Management and before that at several agencies in Massachusetts. While at EPA, she worked on a wide range of Clean Air Act programs and, in particular, on the development of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards.
