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TODAY: EPA Administrator to Attend the Virginia Coastal Policy Centers Climate Change Conference

WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy will be the luncheon speaker at the William & Mary Law School's Virginia Coastal Policy Center third annual climate change conference, "Show Me the Money: The Economic Realities of Responding to Coastal Change and Adaptation in Virginia." The event will focus on the ways in which coastal change and adaptation actions pose fiscal challenges and the available, implementable solutions we must consider to address those challenges.

Administrator McCarthy will discuss how the agency is helping to address climate change and improve air quality through its Clean Power Plan, which for the first time seeks to cut carbon pollution from existing power plants, the single largest source of carbon pollution in the United States.

WHO: EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy

WHAT: William & Mary Law School's Virginia Coastal Policy Center's third annual climate change conference

WHEN: Friday, November 13, 2015
12:30 p.m. EST

WHERE: School of Education
301 Monticello Ave.
Williamsburg, Va. 23187