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PFAS regulation is one of the hot environmental topics and a key issue to watch during this next year. In this series of posts, V&E will address the increasing regulatory attention concerning a group of chemicals known as PFAS and the potential impacts this may have on affected industries.
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) are not usually the first among topics we think of in relation to presidential elections and campaign trail promises. And, while talk of regulating PFAS is nothing new the Environmental Protection Agency, states, and Congress have all been paying increased attention to the issue in the past several years these substances are certainly an early priority for the incoming administration. In his plan to address environmental justice and equitable economic opportunity,
Ask a Scientist: What Should the Biden Administration and Congress Do to Address the Climate Crisis?
Elliott Negin, senior writer | January 14, 2021, 10:30 am EDT This post is a part of a series on
What a difference an election makes. Thanks to the Biden-Harris victory in November, the next administration is poised to make a 180-degree turn to again address the climate crisis.
President Trump famously called climate change a “hoax,” appointed fossil fuel industry lobbyists to key positions in his administration, rolled back the Obama-era rule that would have curbed power plant carbon emissions, and weakened Obama-era limits on vehicle carbon emissions. Just a day after last fall’s election, he pulled the United States out of the international Paris climate agreement.
Biden’s Green Team Takes Shape With Race, Gender Firsts
WASHINGTON, DC, January 13, 2021 (ENS) – President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office on January 20 at noon, has nominated a team of seasoned environmental leaders to fill his Cabinet in positions that will impact the Earth’s unique places, people, and species, now more vulnerable than ever after the Trump administration. Climate will be a top priority of Biden’s core plan for a “clean energy revolution and environmental justice.”
Biden is aware that on January 20, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, only nine years will be left to stop the worst consequences of climate change.
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But some were surprised the handoff would go to a career employee who was so recently elevated.
A mid-December email to staff obtained by InsideEPA announced Bertrand was being promoted, the third such move for her over three years.
“The charitable assumption was they wanted to have someone in a career position in Washington to be able to step in when the transition occurred. It was hard for them to acknowledge because Trump didn’t acknowledge he lost, but clearly someone was thinking about this at EPA,” Stan Meiberg, a former acting deputy administrator for the EPA during the Obama years, said of the agency’s December decision.