New EPA chief Michael Regan relishes ‘clean slate’ after chaos of Trump era
by Oliver Milman from on (#5GAN9)
The first black man to lead the EPA in half a century has a job on his hands at an agency reeling from setbacks - but he's confident he can meet the challenge
Michael Regan has perhaps the most fiendishly challenging job within Joe Biden's administration. As the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Regan not only has to grapple with the unfolding cataclysm of the climate crisis, he must do so at the helm of a traumatized, shrunken institution still reeling from the chaos of the Donald Trump era.
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