Gina McCarthy: US climate plan will stand test of time
by Alex Pashley in Paris, for Climate Home, part of t from Environment | The Guardian on (#X8V6)
Climate Home: American people back flagship clean power plan despite lawsuits and Republican assaults, says Barack Obama's top environmental regulator
The Obama administration's climate centrepiece is bulletproof, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told Climate Home on Thursday.
The legislation upon which it rests - the Clean Air Act - is sound in the face of legal appeals by states and industry groups, Gina McCarthy said on the sidelines of the COP21 summit.
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