Talk about a fixer-upper.
While Donald Trump was making noise elsewhere, his administration also was quietly ripping the floorboards and poking holes in the walls of the EPA.
Regan, 44, who has headed North Carolinaâs Department of Environmental Quality since 2017, is Joe Bidenâs choice as the new EPA administrator.
Part of his challenge will be to repair much of what was undone over the past four years.
According to a New York Times report, compiled from research by the Harvard and Columbia law schools, among others, the Trump administration rolled back nearly 100 environmental protections and regulations. (A Washington Post tally cites 130.)
President Joe Biden believes agriculture has an important role to play in addressing climate change. When signing the climate change executive order, Biden said, “We see farmers making American agriculture first in the world to achieve net-zero emissions and gaining new sources of income in the process.”
The executive order stated: “America’s farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners have an important role to play in combating the climate crisis and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, by sequestering carbon in soils, grasses, trees, and other vegetation and sourcing sustainable bioproducts and fuels.”
It directs USDA to “collect input from farmers, ranchers, and other stakeholders on how to use federal programs to encourage adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices that produce verifiable carbon reductions and sequestrations and create new sources of income and jobs for rural Americans.”
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The Biden administration has set forth its slate of nominees for several key energy and environmental positions. The nominees include veteran regulators, former elected officials and statesmen, among others. Highlighted below are a few of the more consequential nominees.
Michael Regan, Biden’s pick to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has served as secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) for Governor Roy Cooper (D-NC). He played an important leadership role on the North Carolina Clean Energy Plan, which is designed to slash greenhouse gas pollution from the electricity sector to 70 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, foster energy affordability and accelerate clean energy innovation.