Michael Regan listens as North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper announces that Regan will lead the Department of Environmental Quality in January 2017. (Chuck Liddy/The News & Observer via AP) (CN) — President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday picked North Carolina’s top environmental regulator to become the first Black man to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. Michael Regan will replace the agency’s current administrator, Andrew Wheeler, a former coal industry lobbyist who took over in 2018 when his predecessor Scott Pruitt resigned amid investigations over his spending, ethics and management...