Is Presumed EPA Nominee Trustworthy?

by Anthony Ward on February 26, 2013

in Blog, Features

The Washington Post reports that the President is poised to nominate Gina McCarthy to succeed Lisa Jackson (a.k.a. “Richard Windsor”) as EPA administrator. If/when the Senate takes up her confirmation, lawmakers should know that McCarthy, the current chief of Air Regulation at the EPA, has a history of misleading Congress and the public on two of EPA’s most expensive regulations.  As CEI Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis points out in a 2011 editorial:

[McCarthy and other EPA officials] denied under oath that motor vehicle greenhouse gas emission standards are “related to” fuel economy standards. In so doing, they denied plain facts they must know to be true. They lied to Congress…….

The record speaks for itself: McCarthy has been duplicitous on fuel-switching and emissions standards. Sounds like she’ll fit right in with the most open, transparent administration ever.

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