EPA: Trump threats more ‘rhetoric’ than reality

Published December 21, 2016 7:53pm ET



President-elect Trump’s threats of rolling back President Obama’s environmental regulations are more “rhetoric” than reality, according to Gina McCarthy, the outgoing head of the Environmental Protection Agency.

“I’ve certainly heard all of this,” EPA Administrator McCarthy said in a Wednesday interview with the Washington Post.

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