The Obama administration’s top environmental official lauded the Environmental Protection Agency’s embattled Clean Power Plan as “strong” and “powerful.”

Speaking at the Vermont Law School commencement, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy urged graduates to read her agency’s brief on the Clean Power Plan, which regulates carbon emissions from new and existing power plants.

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