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Biden rejects California regulator for EPA job, after environmental justice complaints [The Sacramento Bee]
Dec. 17 California’s chief air pollution regulator, once the front-runner to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the Biden administration, has been passed over after getting pummeled with complaints about her record on environmental justice.
Sources told McClatchy on Thursday that President-elect Joe Biden has chosen Michael Regan, the secretary of North Carolina’sDepartment of Environmental Quality to run the federal EPA. If confirmed by the Senate, Regan would become the first Black man to run the agency.
Until last week, Biden was close to choosing Mary Nichols, the just-retired chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board. Nichols had received broad acclaim for leading California’s fight against climate change and leading its resistance against the Trump administration’s efforts to weaken rules governing greenhouse gas emissions
President-elect Joe Biden speaks to reporters before boarding his plane at New Castle Airport on Dec. 15, 2020. (Photo: Drew Angerer, Getty Images)
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We now know the core group of people who will implement President-elect Joe Biden’s climate agenda. While Biden has promised an all-of-government approach (and he should certainly do that), the leaders of the agencies with the biggest say on climate and environmental rule making and R&D are set.
MacXever/iStock/Thinkstock New nominees for EPA, Department of Interior and climate advisers could bring new direction in addressing the changing climate.
President-elect Joe Biden has made it clear from day one he intends to lead with action on the climate. And now he’s filling his climate team with some familiar faces and some new ones that could bring a change to agriculture.
“We have a good idea of the vision President-elect Biden is trying to accomplish. And as it relates to agriculture it is positive,” says Ethan Lane, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s vice president of government affairs. The concern comes in when the progressive left of the party tries to take actions further.
Joe Biden appoints Pakistani-American Ali Zaidi as deputy national climate advisor
Zaidi is the highest-ranking Pakistani-American appointed by Biden in his administration
PTI | December 18, 2020 | Updated 11:48 IST
US President-elect Joe Biden
US President-elect Joe Biden has announced his climate and energy team, which the transition said is ready on day one to advance his agenda and lead the world to confront the undeniable, accelerating and punishing reality of climate change.
The nominees are Congresswoman Deb Haaland as Secretary of Interior, Jennifer Granholm as Energy Secretary, Michael Regan as administrator for Environmental Protection Agency and Brenda Mallory as Chair of the Council of the Council on Environmental Quality.