by Brady Dennis (Washington Post) President-elect Joe Biden has chosen Brenda Mallory, a longtime expert in environmental law and regulation, to head the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality, according to several people familiar with the decision who spoke anonymously because the appointment has not been publicly announced.
The nomination would place a veteran government official and conservation advocate in a key administration post, one who works closely with agencies to shape federal environmental and energy policy and to ensure individual communities have a voice in the construction of pipelines, roads and other potentially polluting projects.
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Biden has tapped Gina McCarthy, who ran the Environmental Protection Agency under Obama and now leads a major advocacy group, to coordinate the new administration’s domestic climate agenda. He has named former secretary of state John F. Kerry as McCarthy’s counterpart, focusing on international climate policy. And he
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Michael Regan is reported to be the Biden-Harris transition team pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. (Credit: North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality)
The Biden-Harris transition team is expected to select Michael Regan, who currently heads North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality, as the next administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, according to Thursday news reports.
Before being selected by Gov. Roy Cooper to lead North Carolina’s DEQ in 2017, Regan worked at EPA during the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, focusing on energy and air quality. After his time at the EPA, he joined the Environmental Defense Fund, where he worked as Southeast regional director and directed regional efforts on clean energy.
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Total U.S. coronavirus deaths reported each morning this week: Monday,
299,181; Tuesday, 300,482; Wednesday, 303,849; Thursday, 307,501.
The number of confirmed U.S. COVID-19 cases will crash through 17 million today. New cases are averaging 212,000 per day in this country. Hospitalizations for the virus set a U.S. record on Tuesday.
Lawmakers project an air of confidence they will soon be able to pass a monstrous COVID-19 relief and omnibus funding package, but 11th-hour snags could send Congress into a weekend session as it looks to complete its year-end business.
But activist groups had raised red flags, saying that policies championed by Ms. Nichols to try to cut carbon emissions ended up having disproportionately negative effects on communities of color.
Mr. Regan would be a leading member of a team tasked with implementing at least parts of Mr. Biden’s $2 trillion plan to combat climate change, to the extent that he gets cooperation from Congress.
As soon as this week, Mr. Biden is expected to officially announce former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm as his pick to lead the energy department and Gina McCarthy, the former EPA chief during the Obama administration, to a White House position coordinating domestic efforts to combat climate change.
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