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Professor McCabe Offers Insight on Environment and Climate Change
10/22/2020
IU McKinney Professor of Practice Janet McCabe, director of the Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute, was one of four experts called on by the IndyStar to discuss issues related to the environment and climate change in the context of the 2020 election.
The video discussion touches on climate change, energy and the economy, the role of government, and air and water pollution, an area that Professor McCabe knows well as a former EPA official. Professor McCabe was the acting assistant administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation at the EPA from 2013 through 2017.
"Air pollution is all about public health. Air pollution is one of the most significant health threats in the world. And in the United States there is just study after study that associates air pollution with exacerbated asthma, cardiac problems, premature mortality, diminished quality of life, loss of school and work time."
Local governments, she said, have a strong role to play but can’t protect the environment on their own. “There has to be state-level policy, there has to be federal policy that helps to do the things that have to be done at a higher level to then make it possible for local governments to be successful,” she said.
