McCarthy Bills Safe Drinking Water As Top EPA Priority For Coming Year

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy says the coming year is “the year of water,” where officials will make improving drinking water infrastructure their top priority, while also noting that EPA is “running like crazy” to help states that choose to implement its power plant greenhouse gas (GHG) rule, known as the Clean Power Plan, despite a high court stay of the rule. “We want to make sure that while the Clean Power Plan is stayed, it doesn't mean that state actions...