Top Obama-Era Environmental Leader To Speak In Mtn. View

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Former EPA administrator and environmental policy expert Gina McCarthy will lecture about where we actually stand on environmental science and policy in this era of climate change denial in a talk hosted by the Peninsula Open Space Trust at 8 p.m. Tuesday Feb. 13 at the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts.

The event is part of POST’s annual Wallace Stegner Lectures. Tickets are $40 and are available at openspacetrust.org/lectures.

McCarthy was the administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 2013 to 2017 under President Barack Obama and is considered one of the leading national experts on climate change, according to organizers.

"During her years as administrator under President Obama, she led major progress in the public health and environmental protection goals, including signing the Clean Power Plan, first-ever national standards to reduce carbon emissions, and signing the Paris Climate Agreement. Currently she teaches a course at Harvard University titled 'Environmental Leadership: Integrating Science, Public Policy, and Political Rhetoric,'" POST said.

She is the second of three speakers to participate in this year’s Wallace Stegner Lectures. She is preceded by travel author and scientist Bill Bryson who will speak at a sold-out lecture on Jan. 30. She will be followed by indigenous land rights activist and economist Winona LaDuke on March 20. More details on the Wallace Stegner Lectures here.

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--Image courtesy of Peninsula Open Space Trust