Ex-EPA chief Gina McCarthy shares vision for leadership role at Harvard
Former EPA administrator Gina McCarthy, now the director of the Harvard Chan School’s Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE), says that if we pull our eyes away from the federal government’s actions on the environment, we’ll see positive things happening in cities and states and among consumers. The Boston native brings a deep background in public service to her new post. She served as an environmental adviser to several Massachusetts governors and as commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection before taking the helm of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under President Barack Obama. We asked her about her vision for the center, her view of the current EPA, openings for environmental progress, and more. Q&A Gina McCarthy GAZETTE: How are you settling in at the center? Will you be teaching or just focusing on getting C-CHANGE going? McCARTHY: There’s so much going on. I taught during the fellowship that I...