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W. Michael McCabe
Biography
[EPA Region 3 - March 1999]
Appointed by President Clinton in 1995, Michael McCabe serves as Regional Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency's Middle Atlantic Region. In cooperation with Governors and senior state officials, he leads the implementation of Federal environmental programs in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. He directs a staff of 1,000 engineers, scientists, attorneys and support specialists. EPA's programs respond comprehensively to a wide variety of environmental challenges, including air and water pollution, hazardous waste management and cleanup, and ecosystem restoration.
McCabe has worked steadily to fulfill the primary environmental mandate of the Clinton/Gore Administration: to protect public health and improve environmental compliance through more flexible, cost effective and common sense regulations. As Printing Sector co-chair of the Agency's National Common Sense Initiative he streamlined permitting and pollution control measures to achieve superior environmental performance for the printing industry. McCabe has encouraged regional staff to test new performance-based approaches to environmental protection and Region III leads the nation with the highest number of innovative regulatory pilot projects under Project XL.
McCabe has served as Agency lead in achieving an industry-led national approach to manage nutrient-rich waste generated by poultry feeding operations. He also spearheaded a four-agency Federal effort to reform environmental review and permitting of mountaintop mining and valley fill operations in the Appalachian states. McCabe also serves as Federal representative to the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission.
A frequent spokesman for the Agency on regional issues, McCabe is widely quoted in the Washington Post, New York Times, regional newspapers and on National Public Radio. He has appeared on the ABC Evening News and with Mike Wallace on CBS' "60 Minutes".
Prior to his EPA appointment, McCabe served as Delaware Senator Joe Biden's Director of Communications and Projects representing the Senator throughout the state and applying national programs and policies to meet specific needs in Delaware. He was Senator Biden's senior advisor on Delaware issues, ensuring the state's people and communities an effective government response.
McCabe brings to the EPA post more than two decades of experience and commitment to environmental policy and leadership. He directed the staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy Conservation and Power Subcommittee from 1981 - 1985, and was staff director of the bipartisan Congressional Environmental and Energy Study Conference from 1976 - 1979. He organized and directed the national commemoration of the tenth anniversary of Earth Day in 1980. McCabe started his career in public service in 1975 as legislative assistant to Senator Gary Hart, where he specialized in environmental and energy policy, including the promotion of solar energy as an alternative to fossil fuels. In 1981 he staffed the Congressional Delegation to the first United Nations Conference on Energy in Nairobi, Kenya.
Mr. McCabe earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Duke University in 1974. His community involvement in Wilmington, Delaware, has included board membership with the Delaware Theater Company and with Delaware Futures, which provides college scholarships to low-income, disadvantaged teenagers. His wife, Maria, is president of her own communications consulting firm and his two young daughters attend preschool in Wilmington, Delaware.