Will Biden s EPA Take On Wood Burning?
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Last week, President-elect Joe Biden nominated Michael Regan, who now heads North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. One of the top issues he grappled with in North Carolina could also be prominent at the EPA as the Biden administration tries to reduce carbon emissions: burning wood for energy, which could lead to climate doom if not properly regulated.
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Regan’s record at DEQ has garnered praise from policymakers and activists alike for creating his agency’s first Environmental Justice and Equity Board in 2018, as well as helping win settlements to clean up PFAS and coal ash pollution. But on biomass, it’s more mixed.
December 22, 2020
IARN Leaders with the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association are looking forward to working with the Biden Administration’s new leader of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Last week, President-elect Joe Biden selected Michael Regan to head the EPA. Regan most recently led the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. IRFA executive director Monte Shaw is hopeful the new EPA administrator will prioritize ethanol and the biofuels industry.
“We’re going to try to work our best with whoever is in there,” Shaw said. “We don’t have a track record with Michael Regan. I’ll admit, I’m not that knowledgeable of him, but our goals aren’t going to change regardless of who’s in there. We want to see the Renewable Fuel Standard properly enforced and implemented. We don’t want to see it manipulated and degraded like it was with the abuse of the small refinery exemptions and things of that nature.”
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On Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020, President-elect Joe Biden unveiled his climate team, signaling the administration would make energy and environmental policy a top priority. The event formally announced rumored nominees Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM) for secretary of the Department of the Interior and former North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Michael Regan for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Additional appointments on the climate team include former Secretary of State John Kerry as National Security Climate Envoy, environmental attorney Brenda Mallory for chair of the Council of Environmental Quality, and former Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-MI) for Secretary of Energy.
Opinion By Betsy Huber
December 23, 2020 at 5:00 am ET
Late last week, President-Elect Joe Biden named Michael Regan, currently serving as head of North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality, as the head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency. We welcome his expertise and are looking forward to working with him over the next four years.
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