Gina McCarthy
| Gina McCarthy | |
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| 13th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency | |
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In office July 18, 2013 – January 20, 2017 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Deputy | Stan Meiburg (Acting) |
| Preceded by | Bob Perciasepe (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Scott Pruitt |
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Regina McCarthy 1954 (age 62–63) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Kenneth McCarey |
| Children | 3 |
| Education |
University of Massachusetts, Boston (BA) Tufts University (MS) |
Regina "Gina" McCarthy (born 1954) is an American public administrator and an environmental health and air quality expert, and former administrator for the United States Environmental Protection Agency. On March 4, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated McCarthy to replace Lisa Jackson as head of the EPA. Confirmation hearings started April 11, 2013. On July 18, 2013, she was confirmed after a record 136-day confirmation fight, becoming the face of Obama's global warming/climate change initiative.
A native of Boston, McCarthy graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1976, as a Bachelor of Arts in Social Anthropology. She later attended Tufts University, and from there she gained the further degree of Master of Science in Environmental Health Engineering and Planning and Policy in 1981.
A longtime civil servant, McCarthy held the position of assistant administrator of the U.S. EPA from 2009 to 2013. Prior to 2009, she was commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, 2004–2009. She has held several top positions in the civil service of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, including deputy secretary of the Massachusetts Office of Commonwealth Development in 2003–2004 and undersecretary for policy for Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs in 1999–2003.
McCarthy has worked on environmental issues at the state and local levels and has developed policies on economic growth, energy, transportation and the environment. In her twenty-five years in public administration, she has been an environmental advisor to five Massachusetts governors, including former Governor Mitt Romney. From 2004 to 2009 she was commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. In this capacity she implemented a regional policy to trade carbon credits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
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