Mary Nichols Was the Early Favorite to Run Biden’s EPA, Before She Became a ‘Casualty’
While progressives attacked her record on environmental justice, her supporters in California say such criticism is unjust and mourn the loss of her tactical skills.
February 9, 2021
Former California Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nichols was rumored to be a top candidate for EPA Administrator in the Biden Administration. But after attacks on Nichols’ record on environmental justice, Michael Regan was nominated for the post. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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As the Biden administration wrestles with implementing a stack of executive orders on climate change, the president will be proceeding without someone environmentalists see as one of the most skilled and effective regulatory tacticians in the country: Mary Nichols.
Guest post: Criminal Justice Scholarship and Reform
I am very pleased to have the opportunity to publish this guest post from Michael Serota, who is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, an Associate Deputy Director of the Academy for Justice, and the Director of the Criminal Justice Reform Lab. I was lucky enough to be a small part in a big project Michael has just completed, and so it is especially exciting to provide this platform for highlighting this work:
Can scholarship improve criminal justice decisions? That question drives Reforming Arizona Criminal Justice (RACJ), a collaborative project between the Academy for Justice and the
PolitiFact s ruling: Mostly False
Here s why: President Joe Biden has been systematically undoing former President Donald Trump’s policies on climate change. Case in point Trump took the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement. On Biden’s first day, he signed paperwork to bring the United States back in.
Under the Paris agreement, about 200 nations promised to set goals to cut their greenhouse gas emissions. Each nation decides for itself what its goal will be. The hope is that cumulatively, those reductions would limit global temperature increases to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott, who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, criticized Biden’s move.
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