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The mess that Biden's EPA chief Michael Regan will inherit, explained
After four years of Trump, the EPA is poised to make a dramatic turn on pollution, climate change, and justice.
By Umair Irfan Updated Mar 11, 2021, 9:33am EST
Among the personnel changes in the transition between the Trump and Biden administrations, one of the starkest will be who’s at the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist who presided over the weakening of critical regulations that limit climate change at the EPA, has now been replaced by someone who has climate policy as a central pillar of his agenda.
Michael Regan, Biden’s nominee to lead the EPA, was confirmed by the Senate on Wednesday with 66 votes, the most votes for an EPA administrator since 2009.
“I do believe he will be somebody we can rely on to be fair,” said Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican who represents North Carolina, the state where Regan leads the Department of Environmental Quality, at a hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in early February. “At the end of the day, we have a great, well-qualified nominee before us, and I encourage your support.”
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