Reginald Stuart | 12/24/2020, 6 p.m.
Backed by repeated state and U.S. Supreme Court affirmations that a majority of voters in America legally elected Democrat Joe Biden to be the next president of the United States, President-elect Biden and his teammate, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, have been steadily building a unique White House leadership team that dramatically reflects the nationâs diversity.
With hundreds of appointments to go in the coming weeks, 12 of 42 Bidenâs leadership designees are African-American, including retired Army Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III as secretary of defense and U.S. Rep. Marcia L. Fudge of Ohio as secretary of housing and urban development.
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Dillon Delvo never set out to become an environmental justice crusader. But as a native resident of Stockton, Calif., the second-generation Filipino American has long been forced to breathe some of the nation’s worst pollution. Crisscrossed by five freeways and home to a bustling seaport and the associated network of trucks, cars, railways, and ships, Stockton is burdened by California’s highest asthma rate. It is also the nation’s most racially diverse city, with ample Black, Hispanic, Asian American, and white populations included among its 313,000 residents.
Michael Regan Selected To Lead Biden s EPA
Along with a new president of the United States, a new leader will take the mantle at the preeminent federal body responsible for drinking water and wastewater regulations.
“President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Michael S. Regan, who heads the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, as the next Environmental Protection Agency administrator,” per
The Washington Post. “Regan, 44, would be the first Black man to run the EPA.”
Regan’s appointment would likely mark a sea change for the U.S. EPA, which has reversed or weakened more than 100 environmental rules under President Donald Trump and current Executive Director Andrew Wheeler. Biden ran on a campaign that promised to highlight renewable energy and work to slow or stop climate change. It’s likely that stricter federal source-water protection measures, wastewater treatment regulations, and drinking water contaminant guidelines could arrive under Regan’s leade
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published in June 2020.
This story is part of a nine-month investigation of drinking water contamination across the U.S. The series is supported by funding from the Park Foundation and Water Foundation. Read the launch story, “Thirsting for Solutions,” here.
A group of manmade substances that can cause serious health problems in humans and animals is increasingly threatening U.S. drinking water systems, experts say. Scientists are working hard to better understand per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS and develop technologies to minimize harm from these extraordinarily durable pollutants.
PFAS is the umbrella term for a variety of substances, including PFOA, PFOS and GenX. Exposure to high levels of PFAS may decrease vaccine response in children and cause some forms of cancer and birth defects. PFAS also affect the kidneys, liver and immune system, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.