{"id":4992,"date":"2013-07-29T18:05:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T01:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=4992"},"modified":"2013-07-29T18:05:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T01:05:45","slug":"after-delayed-vote-e-p-a-gains-a-tough-leader-to-tackle-climate-change-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=4992","title":{"rendered":"After Delayed Vote, E.P.A. Gains a Tough Leader to Tackle Climate Change &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;ANNAPOLIS, Md. \u2014 When Lisa P. Jackson announced at the end of last year that she was stepping down as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, President Obama faced a choice. He could play it safe by appointing her deputy or he could confront Congress head-on and signal a strong commitment to tackling climate change by appointing the agency\u2019s head of air quality, Gina McCarthy.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/29\/us\/politics\/after-delayed-vote-epa-gains-a-tough-leader-to-tackle-climate-change.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\">After Delayed Vote, E.P.A. Gains a Tough Leader to Tackle Climate Change &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;ANNAPOLIS, Md. \u2014 When Lisa P. Jackson announced at the end of last year that she was stepping down as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, President Obama faced a choice. He could play it safe by appointing her deputy or he could confront Congress head-on and signal a strong commitment to tackling climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}