.........."Gina McCarthy, the chief EPA clean air regulator, also worked as an environmental regulator for then-Governor Romney. Her role now is as point guard (nyuk) in the Obama Administrations fight to make coal fired electric generating plants extinct.
"EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has taken most of the fire from Republicans as her agency rolls out a slew of controversial new climate and clean air rules. But McCarthy, the EPA assistant administrator of the Office of Air and Radiation, has taken on much of the heavy lifting of writing, structuring, and implementing the rules.
“Lisa’s the coach and Gina’s the quarterback” in the work of rolling out new clean air regulations, said Daniel Weiss, an energy and climate policy expert at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank with close ties to the Obama administration. “She’s running the plays, improvising on the line.”........
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JOHN KERRY: Gina [McCarthy] has demonstrated a level of achievement worthy of this important postion. Economist Gary Yohe thinks so. Yohe, who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with Al Gore, said Gina will bring “energy and excitement” to the Obama administration.
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More GREEN Kerry-Holdren-Obama ties:
…..Under the Kerry-Lieberman bill, international offset credits could be given to countries that reduce deforestation as detailed in Sec. 756(c ) of the bill, while Section 5004 calls on the Secretary of Agriculture and the administration of the Environmental Protection Agency to create a program “to provide assistance to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in developing countries, in accordance with this title.”
Funding for that program would have to be appropriated by Congress at levels requested by the administration.
In his July 3, 2008 interview on “Democracy NOW!” Holdren said incentives to reduce deforestation would be a part of the solution, along with “real limits and real charges” on greenhouse gas emissions. He argued, however, that such charges would not be economically ruinous, but would instead create jobs.
“The moment we put real limits and real charges on carbon dioxide emissions, we will see a surge of innovation that will discover even better ways for reducing those emissions,” he said. “We will see new jobs and new wealth created as we convert our energy economy to a clean one rather than a dirty one. We will see new jobs and new income created in sustainable uses of tropical forests rather than cutting them down.”
“The notion that this is going to be unaffordable and an economic catastrophe to address this problem is just wrong,” said Holdren. source
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[John P. Holdren collaborated with Paul and and Ehrlich on “The Population Bomb”] -- 1995 the Heinz Award for the Environment: The Heinz Award As scientists, authors and educators, Paul and Anne Ehrlich have for 30 years devoted themselves to enhancing public understanding of a wide range of environmental issues, including conservation biology, biodiversity and habitat preservation.
The basis of the Ehrlichs' work has always been their science, and they have compiled an important body of scientific research over the years. But it is their environmental advocacy - particularly in the area of population - for which the Ehrlichs are most well known. Paul Ehrlich made a memorable debut on the world scene with the publication of his 1968 book, The Population Bomb, warning that the Earth's resources could not indefinitely support the planet's growing population. In a 1990 sequel, The Population Explosion, Paul and Anne Ehrlich provided an unflinching update.
Setting forth challenging but prescient work was to become a hallmark of the Ehrlichs' careers. Several decades ago, they did it again, becoming the first to raise the alarm about a possible resurgence of infectious diseases - another controversial theory now taken seriously.
Paul Ehrlich, currently Bing Professor of Population Studies in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University, and Anne Ehrlich, senior research associate in the biology and policy coordination center founded by the couple at Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology, have never suggested that population issues represent the whole of the planet's problems. In fact they have been forceful advocates for broadening the agenda of the environmental movement to include such issues as biodiversity, poverty, consumption, carrying capacity, energy supplies, agriculture and food, global warming, nuclear weapons, international economics, environmental ethics, and sustainable development.
The Ehrlichs have displayed rare leadership in seeking to translate meaningful science into workable policy. Far from being prophets of doom, they are spirited optimists, whose unrivaled contributions have flowed from a belief that the future is still ours to make.
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In 1990, Teresa Heinz met Senator Kerry at an Earth Day rally. This was the only reported time they met before Senator Heinz died in an airplane crash on April 4, 1991. In 1992, they met again, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They were married May 26, 1995.
Teresa Heinz, the wife of Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, is the chairman of The Heinz Endowments and the Heinz Family Philanthropies. The New York Times has called her “one of the nation’s leading philanthropists”. Named by Utne magazine as one of 100 American visionaries (“people who could change your life”), she is recognized as one of our premier environmental leaders. She has been a long-time and tireless educator and advocate on behalf of women’s health and economic security. A PHILANTHROPIC INNOVATOR
John P. Holdren Another collaboration with the Ehrlichs: “Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment”
Stanford Ed: Paul Ehrlich: President, Center for Conservation Biology Bing Professor of Population Studies 