WASHINGTON (March 4, 2013) — President Barack Obama has nominated Gina McCarthy, head of the EPA's air and radiation office, to be the next administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The air and radiation office develops policies and regulations for limiting air pollution and radiation exposure.
The president also nominated MIT scientist Ernest Moniz as Energy Secretary and Sylvia Mathews Burwell, president of Walmart Foundation, as the director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Ms. McCarthy helped pushed through regulations curbing mercury and soot emissions from power plants all while building a good relationship with industry, the Washington Post reported.
She served in Republican administrations in both Massachusetts and Connecticut, including time under then Gov. Mitt Romney.
According to her EPA profile page, Ms. McCarthy "has been a leading advocate for common-sense strategies to protect public health and the environment."
Following Ms. McCarthy's nomination, League of Conservation Voters President Gene Karpinski released a statement saying she "cares about progress not partisanship. She's worked for administrations from both parties and made extraordinary progress protecting the air we breathe and defending public health. Republicans and Democrats easily confirmed Gina McCarthy as head of the EPA's clean air division…."
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Jeremy Carroll, a reporter with Waste & Recycling News, a Detroit-based sister publication of Tire Business, contributed to this report.