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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy, disputing energy industry estimates, argues that average Americans ultimately will see lower electric bills as a result of regulations under President Obama's climate change agenda. (Associated Press)

EPA coal power cuts raise electric bills as Obama advances climate change agenda

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama signs documents in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, designating Browns Canyon National Monument in Colorado, a 21,000-acre site along the Arkansas River popular for whitewater rafting a national monument. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

CURL: Obama admin asserts dominion over creeks, streams, wetlands, ditches — even big puddles

By Joseph Curl

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy confers with an aide as she prepares to address the Natural Resources Committee session during the National Governors Association Winter Meeting in Washington, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **

Subpoena proper after EPA chief Gina McCarthy deletes nearly 6,000 text messages, experts testify

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy confers with an aide as she prepares to address the Natural Resources Committee session during the National Governors Association Winter Meeting in Washington, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **

Congress subpoenas EPA chief’s cellphone records

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy confers with an aide as she prepares to address the Natural Resources Committee session during the National Governors Association Winter Meeting in Washington, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **

Climate change puts coffee at risk, EPA chief warns

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy, right, standing with Secretary of State John Kerry, speaks at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015, during a signing ceremony to launch a joint air quality program at select U.S. diplomatic missions overseas. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Gina McCarthy, EPA chief: ‘Climate change is not a religion’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A woman wearing a mask to protect herself from pollutants walks on a pedestrian bridge as buildings at Beijing's Central Business District (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The clean air force

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Chloe Kim competes during the women's snowboarding superpipe final at the Dew Tour iON Mountain Championships in Breckenridge, Colo. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

EDITORIAL: The EPA sells climate change hysteria to the young

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

This Nov. 19, 2014, file photo shows EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy speaking to the Center for American Progress’ Second Annual Policy Conference in Washington. The Obama administration took steps Wednesday to cut levels of smog-forming pollution linked to asthma, lung damage and other health problems, making good on one of President Barack Obama's original campaign promises while setting up a fresh confrontation with Republicans and the energy industry. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)FILE -

ANTHONY SADAR: EPA won’t tolerate global warming questioning

By Anthony J. Sadar

FILE - This June 6, 2013 file photo shows a sign outside the National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md. The Obama administration knew in advance that the British government would oversee destruction of a newspaper’s hard drives containing leaked National Security Agency documents last year, newly declassified documents show. The White House had publicly distanced itself from doing the same against an American news organization. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Court rules NSA doesn’t have to divulge what records it has

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

For President Obama, the new smog rules — dubbed "the most expensive regulation" in American history by manufacturing leaders — allow him to once again bask in the praise of the environmental community, which views this White House as perhaps the most consequential in U.S. history when it comes to its issues. (Associated Press)

Obama administration formally proposes new smog, ozone standards

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy (Associated Press) **FILE**

Gina McCarthy on climate deal: China not going to be able to ‘rest on its laurels’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy (Associated Press) **FILE**

EPA sued over Gina McCarthy’s deleted text messages

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Rising Sea Levels Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

CARTER & HARRIS: Another EPA alarm about rising seas that aren’t rising

By Bob Carter and Tom Harris

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, center, listens as public magnet school students from MAST @ FIU Biscanye Bay Campus, Saad Masud, left, and Deanna Baumann explain how they are checking the salinity levels in water samples, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 in Miami Beach, Fla. McCarthy joined Democratic U.S. Sens. Bill Nelson and Sheldon Whitehouse on Thursday in a South Beach neighborhood that in recent years frequently was flooded by seasonal high tides. The city expects to spend up to $400 million over five years to add about 60 new storm water pumps to improve drainage and reduce flooding. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

EPA chief returns to Conn. to talk up environment

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EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, center, listens as public magnet school students from MAST @ FIU Biscanye Bay Campus, Saad Masud, left, and Deanna Baumann explain how they are checking the salinity levels in water samples, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 in Miami Beach, Fla. McCarthy joined Democratic U.S. Sens. Bill Nelson and Sheldon Whitehouse on Thursday in a South Beach neighborhood that in recent years frequently was flooded by seasonal high tides. The city expects to spend up to $400 million over five years to add about 60 new storm water pumps to improve drainage and reduce flooding. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

EPA chief says Lake Champlain cleanup critical

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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy talks about the cooperation needed for building water infrastructure during the commemoration of a flood-control project in Corrales, N.M., on Monday, Sept. 15, 2014. McCarthy said the project is aimed at alleviating flooding concerns while keeping sediment from reaching the Rio Grande. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

EPA head lauds community investments in mitigation

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Gina McCarthy (Associated Press)

EPA to admit it lost agency chief’s text messages

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The EPA, headed by Gina McCarthy, says strontium, which can reduce bone strength among those deficient in calcium, is the latest contaminant to be targeted under the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act. (Associated Press Photographs)

Darrell Issa pushes EPA chief to resolve investigator dispute

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

"Climate action is not just a defensive play, it advances the ball. We can turn our challenge into an opportunity to modernize our power sector and build a low-carbon economy that will fuel growth for decades to come," Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy said Thursday in a speech at Resources for the Future, a nonprofit research organization. (Associated Press)

EPA chief pushes green energy agenda, ignores high electricity costs that result

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times