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Posted: 5/16/2013 12:29:16 PM EST
Gina McCarthy testifies before a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on her nomination to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on Capitol Hill in Washington April 11, 2013. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
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Posted: 5/9/2013 9:17:08 AM EST
Gina McCarthy testifies before a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on her nomination to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on Capitol Hill in Washington April 11, 2013. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
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Posted: 4/30/2013 3:07:14 PM EST
U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, speaks during the nomination hearing for Gina McCarthy to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on Capitol Hill in Washington April 11, 2013. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
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Posted: 4/30/2013 3:07:14 PM EST
U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, speaks during the nomination hearing for Gina McCarthy to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on Capitol Hill in Washington April 11, 2013. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
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Posted: 4/28/2013 3:43:32 PM EST
In this Aug. 26, 2009 file photo, Kourtney Hardwick, BP Florida operations manager, looks over a methane gas well site east of Bayfield, Colo. The well pad now has three gas wells that have been drilled and are producing natural gas. A new report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered estimates of how much of a potent greenhouse gas is being leaked by the natural gas industry. The EPA now estimates that in 2011 the natural gas industry released 10 percent less methane into the atmosphere than it did in 1990. The new figure comes after the EPA estimated last year that those methane admissions had risen about 15 percent since 1990. (AP Photo/Jerry McBride, File)
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Posted: 4/19/2013 8:08:31 PM EST
File - In this Feb. 22, 2011 file photo, Assemblywoman Nora Campos, D- San Jose, discusses her proposed measure that, if approved, will require California health regulators to establish a standard level for Hexavalent chromium in state drinking water supplies during a Capitol news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Feb. 22, 2011. Federal regulators says California's Department of Public Health has failed to spend about half a billion dollars of federal money meant to improve water infrastructure in the state at a time when thousands of Californians rely on groundwater laced with nitrates and other contaminants. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a letter of noncompliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act to the state on Friday April 19, 2013. It shows California failed to spend $455 million from the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, the largest unspent sum in the nation. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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Posted: 4/16/2013 11:40:18 PM EST
Gina McCarthy speaks with U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-NE) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) prior to testifying before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on her nomination to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on Capitol Hill in Washington April 11, 2013. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
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Posted: 4/16/2013 11:40:18 PM EST
Gina McCarthy speaks with U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-NE) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) prior to testifying before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on her nomination to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on Capitol Hill in Washington April 11, 2013. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
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Posted: 4/16/2013 11:40:18 PM EST
Gina McCarthy speaks with U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-NE) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) prior to testifying before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on her nomination to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on Capitol Hill in Washington April 11, 2013. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
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Posted: 4/16/2013 9:29:32 PM EST
Gina McCarthy speaks with U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-NE) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) prior to testifying before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on her nomination to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on Capitol Hill in Washington April 11, 2013. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
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Posted: 4/16/2013 9:29:32 PM EST
Gina McCarthy speaks with U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-NE) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) prior to testifying before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on her nomination to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on Capitol Hill in Washington April 11, 2013. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
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Posted: 4/16/2013 9:29:32 PM EST
Gina McCarthy speaks with U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-NE) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) prior to testifying before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on her nomination to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on Capitol Hill in Washington April 11, 2013. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
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Posted: 4/16/2013 8:01:49 PM EST
Gina McCarthy speaks with U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-NE) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) prior to testifying before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on her nomination to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on Capitol Hill in Washington April 11, 2013. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
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Posted: 4/16/2013 8:01:49 PM EST
Gina McCarthy speaks with U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-NE) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) prior to testifying before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on her nomination to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on Capitol Hill in Washington April 11, 2013. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
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Posted: 4/16/2013 7:03:13 PM EST
Gina McCarthy speaks with U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-NE) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) prior to testifying before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on her nomination to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on Capitol Hill in Washington April 11, 2013. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
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Posted: 4/16/2013 7:03:13 PM EST
Gina McCarthy speaks with U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-NE) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) prior to testifying before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on her nomination to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on Capitol Hill in Washington April 11, 2013. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
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Posted: 2/26/2013 3:13:36 PM EST
FILE - In this April 28, 2008 file photo S.S. Badger Chief Engineer Chuck Cart shovels coal into the one of the steamship's four boilers in Ludington, Mich. On one level, it's a straightforward case of a business seeking a government permit to discharge wastewater. But when the Environmental Protection Agency rules shortly on whether to let the S.S. Badger car ferry continue dumping ash into Lake Michigan, it will be a milestone in a decades-old effort to keep afloat the last coal-fired steamship operating on U.S. waters. (AP Photo/Jeff Kiessel/Ludington Daily News, File)
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Posted: 2/26/2013 3:13:36 PM EST
FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2012 file photo senior chief engineer Charles Cart stands at the wheel of the S.S. Badger in Ludington, Mich. On one level, it's a straightforward case of a business seeking a government permit to discharge wastewater. But when the Environmental Protection Agency rules shortly on whether to let the S.S. Badger car ferry continue dumping ash into Lake Michigan, it will be a milestone in a decades-old effort to keep afloat the last coal-fired steamship operating on U.S. waters. (AP Photo/John Flesher, File)
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Posted: 2/26/2013 3:13:36 PM EST
FILE - In this May 12, 2006 file photo the S.S. Badger passes the north breakwater light at Ludington, Mich. On one level, it's a straightforward case of a business seeking a government permit to discharge wastewater. But when the Environmental Protection Agency rules shortly on whether to let the S.S. Badger car ferry continue dumping ash into Lake Michigan, it will be a milestone in a decades-old effort to keep afloat the last coal-fired steamship operating on U.S. waters. (AP Photo/Ludington Daily News, Andy Klevorn, File)
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Posted: 1/24/2013 1:13:30 AM EST
Dr. Gary Kunkel arrives at the Utah State Capitol wearing a breathing mask before a news conference Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, in Salt Lake City. A group of doctors is declaring a health emergency over northern Utah's lingering pollution problem. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has singled out the greater Salt Lake region as having the nation's worst air for much of January, when an icy fog smothers mountain valleys for days or weeks at a time and traps lung-busting soot. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
