…EPA chief Gina McCarthy, that is.
A new poll by the Wall Street Journal and NBC found strong support among Americans for new Environmental Protection Agency standards proposed to cut carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants—The Clean Power Plan. A promising part of the story is that Americans increasingly embrace the reasons Gina McCarty and others (including President Obama) give in support of those rules, and that they increasingly reject claims by opponents of climate and energy solutions.
Now, McCarthy isn’t really the type to deliver a stem-winder—and that’s probably not really in the US EPA Administrator’s job-description anyway. But her announcement about the new policy was rousing nonetheless. It’s a powerful story of American ingenuity and problem-solving, about protecting our families from harm and coming out ahead; it’s a story about a healthy economy and a healthy environment depending on each other to thrive.
And the good thing about a speech of this kind is that we can bet that these messages have been exhaustively tested and that they “land” with American voters—an excellent reason to follow McCarthy’s lead.
