Regan previously worked at the EPA for the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations and worked as a national program manager responsible for designing programs to improve energy efficiency and air quality and reduce air pollution.
Regan later worked at the Environmental Defense Fund, where he led efforts to curb the impacts of climate change and air pollution.
He will play a critical role in supporting Biden s aggressive plan to battle global warming and transition the U.S. economy away from fossil fuels to clean energy. Regan is also expected to strongly address environmental racism. Regan has dedicated his career to environmental work, advancing clean energy, fighting climate change and addressing coal ash pollution, said Abigail Dillen, president of Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental law organization. As EPA Administrator, Regan will play a key role in solving the climate crisis and protecting the health of all communities.
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Michael Regan currently leads the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality and previously worked on air quality policy at the Environmental Protection Agency. North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
President-elect Joe Biden will name Michael Regan, North Carolina s environment secretary and a former EPA official, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, according to a source familiar with the decision who spoke about private conversations on the basis of anonymity.
If confirmed by the Senate, Regan would be the first African American man to run the EPA. He stands to inherit an agency that has been ground zero as the Trump administration rolled back climate and pollution regulations.
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(Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate Michael Regan, North Carolina’s top environmental regulator, to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, three sources with knowledge of the discussions said on Thursday.
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If confirmed by the Senate, Regan would become the first Black person to run the EPA and one of the key players in Biden’s agenda to reverse environmental rollbacks under outgoing President Donald Trump and fight climate change by bringing the U.S. economy to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The EPA administrator is the top U.S. environmental regulator.