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The 8.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, 2011, unleashed a 30-foot tsunami along Japan’s Pacific Coast that damaged nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear complex. The crippled reactors leaked radiation into the sea…

As administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2013-2017), Gina McCarthy faced a daunting challenge: to write a technically airtight and legally defensible regulation, the Clean Power Plan, to reduce carbon pollution from existing power…