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The Environmental Protection Agency is changing major regulatory practices that date to previous presidential administrations. The legal news website, Law.com, interviewed Visiting Professor and Distinguished Scholar Janet McCabe for a story about the changes. (registration required) MirrorIndy also spoke with Professor McCabe about what changes could mean for Indiana residents.

As deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from April 2021 to October 2024, Professor McCabe played a key role in shaping the nation’s environmental policies and oversaw all management aspects of the agency and its workforce. She was a professor of practice at IU McKinney and directed the Environmental Resilience Institute from 2017 to 2021.

McCabe began her service at the EPA in 2009 in the Office of Air and Radiation. Before her work at the EPA, McCabe was executive director of Improving Kids’ Environment, an Indianapolis environmental health advocacy organization focused on children’s health. She’s also held various leadership roles in the Indiana Department of Environmental Management’s Office of Air Quality.

Professor McCabe is serving at the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law, the IU Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the IU Environmental Resilience Institute. As senior policy advisor at the Environmental Resilience Institute at IU, she will advance several projects critical for the state, including a relaunch of the Indiana Climate Change Impacts Assessment, and further build out the institute’s network of municipal partners.