Catherine McCabe
Catherine McCabe | |
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| Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Acting | |
| In office January 20, 2017 – February 17, 2017 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Deputy | Mike Flynn (Acting) |
| Preceded by | Gina McCarthy |
| Succeeded by | Scott Pruitt |
| Personal details | |
| Education | Columbia University (BA, JD) |
Catherine McCabe is a public administrator and environmental lawyer who served as the Environmental Protection Agency's Acting Administrator[1] from January to February 2017. She is currently Acting Regional Administrator for EPA's Region 2, based in New York City.
Education
McCabe attended Barnard College of Columbia University and earned a Bachelor of Arts in environmental sciences. She also studied toward a master's degree in environmental science at the Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School.[1]
Career
McCabe worked as an Assistant Attorney General in the Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York. She was also an associate at the New York City law firm of Webster & Sheffield.[1]
McCabe spent 22 years working in the Department of Justice, specializing in environmental issues.[2] In 2001, she became Deputy Chief of the Environmental Enforcement Section of the Department of Justice.[3]
In 2005, she moved to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) where she was the Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. After seven years with the EPA McCabe became one of three judges on the EPA’s Court of Appeals.[3] McCabe then served as Deputy Regional Administrator of EPA's Region 2 in New York City.
She was selected by the outgoing Obama Administration to serve as Acting EPA Administrator starting on January 20, 2017 until President Donald Trump's EPA nominee, Scott Pruitt, was confirmed.[2]
During her time as Acting EPA Administrator, McCabe commented that, despite the challenges of the transition, career EPA staff would "continue to do our best to ensure that this agency’s decisions and actions are based on our two bedrock principles: carrying out the law and ensuring that the best science informs all that we do.”[4]
Personal Life
McCabe is married with three children. She lives in New York City, NY.
References
- ^ a b c "EPA's Acting Administrator". EPA.gov. Archived from the original on 21 January 2017. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
- ^ a b Bronwne, Ryan; Payson-Denney, Wade (19 January 2017). "The people you don't know who could be running the government on Friday". CNN. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
- ^ a b Sherman, Paul (13 November 2012). "Careers in environmental law focus of EPA judge's talk". The Michigan Daily. Retrieved 2017-01-22.
- ^ Dennis, Brady (15 February 2017). "Acting EPA Head: Hiring Freeze Challenges 'Our Ability to Get the Agency's Work Done". Washington Post. Retrieved 20 February 2017.