The Question Obama's EPA Pick Can't Answer

摘要

Gina McCarthy has fielded 1,100 questions from Senate Republicans in Congress since President Obama picked her in March to head the Environmental Protection Agency-more than any EPA nominee before her. Among them: How many people in the U.S. last year got mercury poisoning from power plants fired by coal? (Seventeen hundred.) Will there be 21 billion gallons of ethanol made from renewable sources by 2030 as required under the law? (It's too soon to say.)