This Climate One podcast is sponsored by General Motors.

How will we power our future? Can we create a healthy and clean economy?

Climate One at the Commonwealth Club is at the forefront of the global debate about energy, economy, and the environment.

Bringing together the brightest and most provocative leaders of our time, Climate One is the place where big ideas get heard.

With thoughtful and insightful discussions on policy, business, science, and culture,

Climate One founder Greg Dalton gets to the heart of the matter.

It's our future. It's time to come together.

I'm Greg Dalton, and today on Climate One from the Commonwealth Club, my guest is Gina McCarthy,

head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Over the next hour, we will talk about growing the economy, cutting carbon pollution, fracking,

the Arctic, dirty energy, hardball politics, and a lot more.

Our conversation will also include questions from our live

audience here in San Francisco. President Obama has made cleaning up the climate a priority in his

second term. Cornerstone of his agenda is a plan to reduce pollution from power plants that make

people sick and fry the sky. That plan is being challenged in court and an unfriendly Congress is

attacking every aspect of the administration's plan to move the country to cleaner fuels.

On the other hand, the president, Republicans, and large corporations are pushing a new trade deal

with 12 Pacific countries. Environmentalists say the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP,

would steam rule national and local laws protecting human health and the environment. Before taking the helmet EPA in 2013,

Gene McArthur led Connecticut's Department of Environmental Protection. She also served as a top official in Massachusetts Environmental Agency.

For over 30 years, she worked as a state and local level

on policies balancing energy, the economy, and the environment.

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