After Departures, McCarthy Taps 'Acting' Officials To Fill Crucial Vacancies

摘要

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy is appointing current agency officials to temporarily fill vacancies for the agency's deputy administrator and other vacant top slots - appointments that could remain in place through the end of the Obama administration as the Senate has been unable to confirm nominees for other top environmental positions. At an Aug. 7 all-hands meeting, McCarthy named Lisa Feldt, EPA's associate deputy administrator, to serve as acting deputy administrator to replace outgoing Deputy Administrator Bob Perciasepe, whose last official day at EPA is Aug. 8 "I have full confidence that she will be able to step in and carry the baton where Bob's left off," McCarthy said at the meeting, according to a transcript distributed by EPA.