Obama to Name Top Climate-Change Regulator
"President Obama is expected to nominate Janet McCabe, a deputy administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency's clean-air office, to head that division, according to sources familiar with his thinking. The position would put her at the heart of the president's historic and controversial global-warming agenda. She would be charged with crafting massive new pollution regulations affecting the nation's coal-fired power plants—rules that could eventually freeze the nation's coal industry, but also position the U.S. as a global leader on climate change."
*Experts in environmental regulation said that McCabe will face a huge legal challenge in crafting the climate-change regulations, which are in many ways unprecedented in the history of environmental law. But they said McCabe is up to the challenge."
http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/obama-to-name-top-climate-change-regulator-20130828