Dive Summary:

• After a delayed vote, the newly selected head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Gina McCarthy is trying to quell the fears of a coal industry hell bent on avoiding stricter emissions regulations.
• “We don’t have a war on coal,” she said. “We’re doing our business, which is to reduce pollution. We’re following the law.”
• But McCarthy admits at a staff meeting: “We need this agency to reinvent itself. “…Not every environmental problem deserves a rule.” Meanwhile, the Sept. 20 deadline to re-write carbon emissions regulations is fast approaching. President Obama wants McCarthy to “get started,” “get it done” and “get it done right.”

From the article:

“The agency must produce draft standards for existing plants, a vastly more complex and controversial undertaking, by next June”