Published: Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Gina McCarthy. Photo credit: Sipa USA/Newscom
Gina McCarthy speaks to reporters at the White House last month. Sipa USA/Newscom
Roughly one month into his tenure as Massachusetts governor in 2003, Mitt Romney held a press conference outside a coal plant near Boston.
"That plant kills people," the Republican governor declared.
The plant known as the Salem Harbor Generating Station was seeking an extension to comply with new state air quality rules, which called for slashing nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, mercury and carbon dioxide.
Romney made clear he had little appetite for granting it, to the dismay of utility workers who had been bused in for the event.