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IU McKinney Law Professor of Practice Janet McCabe was interviewed on two separate radio programs regarding the Trump administration’s new Affordable Clean Energy plan.

National Public Radio’s Jeff Brady interviewed Professor McCabe for a story that aired on All Things Considered on Wednesday, June 19.

On June 20, Professor McCabe taped an interview for The Rick Ungar Show, a nationally syndicated radio program, which aired on the same day.

The Trump administration’s new Affordable Clean Energy rule repeals and replaces the Clean Power Plan, which Professor McCabe worked on while at the EPA during the Obama Administration.  The Clean Power Plan was the first regulation to require reductions of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fired power plants--a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions in the US.

Professor McCabe is assistant Director for Policy and Implementation at IU’s Environmental Resilience Institute. Funded through IU’s Prepared for Environmental Change Grand Challenge initiative, the institute works with researchers, community leaders, governments, businesses, farms and nonprofits to lessen the impact of environmental changes and prepares for their real-world effects.  

From July 2013 through January 2017, Janet McCabe was the Acting Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation at the United States Environmental Protection Agency and was nominated by President Barack Obama to be Assistant Administrator of that office. She joined EPA in November 2009, serving as the Principal Deputy to the Assistant Administrator of OAR.