EPA Administrator to Deliver Remarks at 85th Annual League of United Latin American Citizens National Conference

EPA News Release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJuly 11, 2014

EPA Administrator to Deliver Remarks at 85th Annual League of United Latin American Citizens National Conference

WASHINGTON - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy will travel to New York today to deliver remarks at the 85th Annual League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) National Conference Presidential Banquet. LULAC is the largest and oldest Hispanic civil rights organization in the United States. McCarthy’s remarks will focus on climate change and disproportionate public health impacts on the Latino community. 

Climate change supercharges health risks like asthma and others ailments associated with increased temperatures and pollutants that come packaged with carbon pollution. EPA’s Clean Power Plan proposal, a vital piece of President Obama's Climate Action Plan, cuts carbon pollution from existing power plants, the single largest source of carbon pollution in the United States.

WHO: EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy             

        

WHAT: Remarks at 85th Annual League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) National Conference 

WHEN: Friday, July 11; 7 p.m. EDT

WHERE:
New York Hilton Midtown Hotel

1335 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10019

Members of the media interested in covering this event should email press@epa.gov.

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