EPA chief McCarthy: When Obama made that climate speech "I was jumping for joy and haven’t gotten off cloud nine since"

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when the president got up and made what I think was one of the most courageous speeches [on climate change] I’ve heard from a president, I was jumping for joy and haven’t gotten off cloud nine since.
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I relish going up in front of Congress. People need to understand and hear from experts, they need to hear the science from the scientists, they need to understand that I’ve been doing this work for a long time. I don’t have my own religion that I’m imposing