42 Quotes by Gina McCarthy

You are to be commended. You have been patient. You have been dogged.

Congress approved $400 million for wildlife preservation, but it didn't stop there and thank goodness it didn't. They wanted us to consider how we were spending that money.

Islander East insists on a pipeline route that travels through some of the most precious and fragile natural resource areas of Long Island Sound,

It's about the health and well-being of our children and the health and well-being of our world. Kids need to reconnect to the outdoors.

It is the wettest month in 104 years. It was 16 inches of rain, we have had 7 dams break, though there was no significant loss of property in those events.

The federal standards are simply not good enough. If we can't get the federal government to act, then we have to take action in any way we can.

EPA gets to set a standard for new. For the existing, EPA sets guidelines for what we think is appropriate, but then states develop plans that work for them, taking into consideration their specific energy mix.

We need an international solution to the challenge of climate change, there's no question about it. But the real key is, can you actually get that - or get that solution - without the US' involvement? Can you not lead domestically, and expect the rest of the world will take action... the US needs to lead, we need to be out there.

People are not running to build coal facilities because of the price of natural gas, but we do see them being constructed, and there is an interest in fuel diversity, so we took the exercise pretty seriously.