Just look at where the u. S. Energy sector is now. 2014 alone, Clean Energy Investment increase by 14 , that is five times greater growth than the rest of the u. S. Economy. U. S. Powerplant co2 emissions in 2015 were about 24 below 2005 levels. Already well on the way to the cpps 2030 targets. 2015 admissions were about the same as the cpp firstyear goal in 2022 and 2015. That 2022 and 2015. That is a full seven years ahead of schedule. Twentyfour states have lower omissions in 2015 then there are 2022 annual goal. 22 annual goal. The first year of compliance in the cpp. Including states like ohio, north carolina, pennsylvania, and south dakota. The Energy Information agency estimates of 70 of new utility generating capacity expected to come online in 2016 will actually beat zero email to, mostly solar and wind. So clearly theres more going on in our world and our Energy Sector than the cpp can account for. Look, im really not trying to say that the cpp is not important, you know that. I love it. I think it is great, but the truth is if i were to stand here and explain the significance and virtue of the Clean Power Plan it we keep you here for quite a lengthy period of time and i cannot fit it into a soundbite and it certainly doesnt fit into a tweet, i have tried it, i know. But i believe you got a pay obamas deliberate vision that history will show that the Clean Power Plan marked a turning point in american climate leadership, the point where country stepped up to the plot and delivered and the west rest of the world followed us. As a sign of u. S. Commitment. Its a market signal to investors and innovators and it brings stability and certainty to the Energy Sector into the world. But the global transition to a low Carbon Economy is more than any one regulation. The Energy Market and the commitment of the private sector is what is driving and will continue to drive this journey. This journey is consistent with virtually every nations understanding of climate science. And our obligation to protect our childrens futures. We are in we are in a spectacularly different place today then went obama took office. Before developing countries will point a finger at us, now theyre wondering if wondering if the u. S. Will turn its back on science and be left behind. That is the choice that we face. As the president said, the inevitability of our Clean Energy Future is again bigger than any one person or one nation. Must be guided by a simple but profound truth. We do not ha to choose between economy or environment. But folks, we can and we must choose both. The truth has been the foundation of all of the progress we have made at epa. This truth, and we have a track record to show for it. Over the past eight years under president obamas leadership we have taken trendous strides forward in economic growth. Eight years of economic expansion and a record increase in median incomes. At the at the same time we have made incredible progress in cutting pollution and protecting Public Health. At the same time, this president has understood and stood up and said so clearly that a clean healthy environment is not a luxury, its not windowdressing. It is a bright. It is a foundation of our economy and our lives. Our work to cut pollution must always focus not only on what our nation needs as a whole but also on those who have been disproportionately hurt, disadvantaged communities that bear the burden of environmental injustice. In the past eight years we have paid attention not only to our National Challenges but our ability and williness and effort to partner with their states, our local communities and our tribes. We set measurable, common sense standards. Let me just tell you about a few of them. We have reduce mercury emissions from power plants. We have protected more people from harmful levels of ozone and particulate matter. We have lowered content in fuels and pollution from our cars. We have made states accountable for harmful levels of air pollution that they send it downwind. We have required monitors round refineries. We have made progress in cleaning up our ports. We have clarified the jurisdictional boundaries of the Clean Air Act, 40 years of work, we finally did it. We reduce toxic it. We reduce toxic effluent from powerplant a set new standards for the manager of coal ash. We provide farmworkers with the same level of protection that other workers have enjoyed for many years. We made progress in restoring a comic water bodies like our precious Chesapeake Bay and the great lakes. We have made sure the standards are met with enforcement that put people first. Like the deepwater horizon still settlements that provided 20,000,000,000 dollars dollars to restore and protect the gulf. Or the folks wagon settlement that ensures 14 billion to compensate consumers to reduce pollution and to invest in an infrastructure was zero emitting vehicles. With leverage of the power of information to broaden and empower our environmental enterprise in this country. Through programs like energy star, water sense, water sense, and safer choice, they empower consumers to grow demand as well as the market for greener products. Through their purchases and epa apps like how is my waterway and school iq assessment, eck them out. These these are tools you can use to get in the game. To protect yourself. To actually make a difference in your own lives in a difference in your neighbors lives. We have tools like Climate AdaptationResource Center in the Green Infrastructure wizard. These are things that help communities as well as businesses understand how they can protect themselves and find the least cost a most effective way to become an environmental steward. We unlock the power of Citizen Science to help us protect more people using people power not money. Transparent, readily assessable information, new Monitoring Technologies like our Village Green bench, go sit on one. Theyre around. They actually double as an air monitor so people can see what their local air quality looks like. They have cameras now that we are sharing with states and communities that can literally see pollution that otherwise would be invisible like leaks from storage tanks. That are still just as dangerous as a smokestack spewing out proximal. We have deep in the focus on vulnerable communities that have been left behind. Through our work with tries under a tribes we are recognizing tribal treaty rights in the work that were doing. And i were to make a difference in communities that has already reached every region of this country in our work looking ahead such as the ej 2020 plan or efforts that i en so successful we have collaborated with other federal partners to support communities in their efforts to become more sustainable like our local food, or local places. Course we have increased our attention on Drinking Water. Lessons learned in flint to be shared across the nation so we can better prepare to finish the job on addressing legacy contaminants. We can face the nuance and we can fix our aging infrastructure. Doing more, doing better, that is cpas constant aspiration. Its also the nature of our democracy. We made progress using science and the law and we continue to be responsive to change. We do not oppose it. That is how epa was born. That is our mission will exist far beyond the bounds of electoral cycles. At its core epa embraces the american ideal people nervous one on. Of many come on. We, like this nation will always be a place where we draw strength from our differences. Under this this president s watch we have engaged more americans than ever in the work that we do. Millions have informed our climate roles. A. A vast majority simply want us to protect them their childrens future by following real science and the law. Mothers of every color have banded together to ensure their voices are heard. Leaders of all faiths have come into epa and beyond speaking about our moral obligation to take Climate Action. Historic and africanamerican voices have been speaking up. They are reminding us that they are way too often the ones at risk when we fail to act appropriately. Businesses big and small im making the risk of inaction very clear in calling calling attention to the opportunities there sitting in front of us to boost our economy and create new sectors of jobs. Epa has listened to those voices. Im so proud of the work we have done to reach a more diverse constituency, to make epa more accessible and make it a place were more voices can be heard. And make a difference. Your where communities concerned about their health and yes as this is concerned about their operations are welcomed into the decision process to work with us hand in hand. I know theres a lot of anxiety these days, im very hopeful to the future for a few reasons. Let me on to chelate. Epa has done its job well. In the Environmental Enterprises is more inclusive and more effective than ever. We have energized the American People who will demand not only clean air and water for their children, they will demand a stable planet as well. We have created have created the kind of residence that motivate a generation of young people, familiar movement that resembles time passed when millions of voices standing up and speaking out, that is what has changed the trajectory and that would keep us moving toward a low carbon future. Im hopeful because in 2016, that was just this year, a bill passed on a voice vote in the senate and in the house with only 12 no votes. Do you believe it . It was an environmental bill do we know what that was and it was that the naming of a post office. It was the loud and bird chemical safety act. That is the first update to an environmental statute in 20 years. Congress overwhelmingly claim came together, this congress to give the epa more authority to protect the American People from dangerous chemicals. When he signed the bill into law president obama said, this is proof that here in washington things can work. Its possible. We can keep families safe and unleash the mention of American Innovation prayed we can protect the planet and keep creating jobs. If we can get this bill then it means somewhere out there on the horizon we can make our politics less toxic as well. I think president obama was right, although we may have a ways to go on his last point. We can make things work in washington if we choose to focus on the job we are given. Free pa epa it is protecting the health of the people that we have pledged to sir. I want to end with this. I want to thank the Unsung Heroes that i have had the privilege of working with at epa. The scientists, the scientists, economists, policy people, lawyers, regulators who have devoted their lives to Public Service to the outside advocates, the businesses, the innovators and industry visionaries. We need you, we still need you, we will always need you. I know who you are, i know you play place science in serviceable partisanship. Ive ive seen what youre capable of so certain that our future will be brighter and healthier, and more just world. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you we have a lot of questions to get through. One one at the top of our minds and you address this, how do you react to the prospect that the causey of work so hard on in the past eight years i threatened to be overturned by series of executive orders next year . As i said im very confident in the work that we have done. There has been not progress through executive orders to butter executive authorities. I mention the Clean Air Act and we took steps moving forward. Im looking for to a smooth transition and getting folks in here so they can see the work of the agency and how well we have done our job. Have you met with anyone from the Transition Team in order been in contact with them . We have not been contacted. Lets talk about the loss. We talked about the clean water and air act. You have a Republican White House soon in january, majority Republican House and senate. Are Republican House and senate. Are you concerned some of those laws could be repealed going back to those two . If you go back and look at i try to make it pretty clear, what we what we do is protect Public Health and precious natural resources. It is a mission that is still indoors. We have we have been successful over five decades in a voting partisan politics as much as possible to remind folks that really doesnt matter if youre republican or democrat, you still want your kids to be healthy in their future to be sound. We will look at those, they have stood the test of time and im confident the agency is doing its work well and people still want the same things have always wanted and that is a Bright Future for their kids. Still, president elect trump has promised to undo do many environmental regulations, Climate Change regulations. Would you beg them to spare want to have one . Youre asking me to pick among my children. I can do that cannot. I think were going to have to wait and see. My job right right now is to do a smooth transition. Thats what the president has told us. That is my commitment. We will do that and will tell people what is going on in the agency. If you sit in my shoes every day you see the breath of what that agency does, you see how hard we work a you pick up the phone and realize that every day theres a new issue or problem were concerned that an individual or community has. Or work that the states cant or dont have the resources or the technical capacity to do. Its really hard not to respond to those calls for help. I expect that will continue in the next administration will respond. The memo you say staff after election day said you wanted to run to the finish line to the obama presidency. What you plan to accomplish in the next nine weeks . Do. Do you expect me to detail . I dont have any secrets or are agendas out there. We have a lot of work to do. The point of the president s theres one president at a time and i am working for this one and i will do that work and continue with it. And the agency right now, we are focused on the work ahead and the work we have to do. That is the best place for the people in the agency to be and thats what were doing now. That goes into the next question. Excuse me, sorry you need to sit down. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] man, thank you very much. I think youve made your point. To those who are watching online, launches are open to the republic. This is not necessarily a reporter standing not necessarily a reporter standing up right now. Thank you man. Thank you man. Thank you man. I will get back to that no little bit lets get back to the next question. Were talking about the mood for the epa employees. As theyre concerned with concern with your employees especially this step about rolling back the work they have done. We call them career staff. I like the word bureaucrat but many people atone as negative. My folks are there doing fine. Most. Most of them have been through transitions before. They are working with one another just continuing to hunker down and do their job. Theyre pretty confident that the mission of epa is a good one and it will be enduring and they will be continue to do the work of the agency. Lets go back to your speech. Name. Name the top three of the accomplishments you have made in the top three achievements. Again youre asking me to pick between my children. Ive spent my first four years in the Administration Working in the air program. I probably have a bit a more in love with that work. We do a lot of work. When i came in here as you know im from new england, specifically anywhere in particular do you think . I came in with a couple of rules that i knew were on the plate that i wanted to get over the finish line, one was their toxic same toxic sand stander. I rely thought it was time under the Clean Air Act somebody thought that these old units with no modern controls on the will somehow have faded out, but they didnt. So lowering the toxics that are so vulnerable that her kids are vulnerable to and it was really important to me, but the other was the pollution rule which if you remember we didnt do so well the first time and ended up doing really well on appeal. So that was really important because in the new england area we get a lot of that down when to air that comes from upwind sources and we spent a lot of resources to make sure the air that we produce the new englands claim. We really felt an equity issue in a justice issue required the folks to the best they could everywhere and i think we did it in a way that was reasonable and costeffective by designing the Trading Program around that. A product that will thats good. Having said that i really am happy that we got the clean water roll over the finish line. Im looking forward to the agency defending it in court. I think we we should all be embarrassed to have a law that old with twice getting yelled at by the Supreme Court and never addressing fundamentally the jurisdictional question. I worked hard myself on that and individually when i was an administrator to make sure were not just being respectful of the eager culture industry but making sure provided the clarity they need as well. I think it is a great role and i am proud of it. I dont want to reward protesters but its a valid questions. Can you talk to about your thoughts and concerns about indigenous concerns about the standing rocket pipeline . The one thing i will tell you is i have been to standing rocket met with the tribal council. The president of the United States has been to standing rocket met with