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On Wednesday, March 10, 2021, the U.S. Senate confirmed Michael Regan as the next EPA Administrator.
Although Regan and most of the Biden-Harris administration’s other high-level EPA officials have fairly limited private sector experience, they are known as seasoned, pragmatic leaders who bring substantive expertise to their roles.
Over the next four years, expect Regan’s team to oversee significant regulatory action and increased enforcement across all media, all while prioritizing environmental justice.
The bipartisan confirmation of Michael Regan as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) elevates a public servant with a wealth of federal, state and nonprofit experience. Regan is not alone: nearly all of the Biden-Harris administration’s EPA appointees and hires have experience on Capitol Hill and at EPA (many having returned from the Obama administration), state regulatory agencies, prominent environmental groups or educational institu
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Michael Phillis | February 5, 2021, 7:13 PM EST President Joe Biden s promise to secure environmental justice is an ambitious effort to achieve long-sought equity for poor and minority communities that experts say could maybe, finally, put teeth behind the lip service that has been paid to the concept.
The president made a multifaceted approach to environmental justice the concept of addressing the disproportionate environmental harms faced by largely poor, minority communities an integral part of his climate change strategy as outlined in an executive order signed about a week after he took office.
That climate change order is intended to force the government to address the outsized burden disadvantaged communities have borne from pollution, often stemming from industrial facilities in those areas. It directs the federal government to step up enforcement of environmental laws, commits to steer clean energy investments toward those communities
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New EPA Picks Show Commitment To Environmental Justice
Law360 (February 4, 2021, 10:43 PM EST) A high-profile Native American activist who formerly led the National Congress of American Indians and top environmental justice leaders and experts have joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, signaling President Joe Biden s continued commitment to environmental and climate justice.
The 14 new EPA appointees announced Tuesday do not require Senate confirmation, and many hail from backgrounds that touch civil rights work. They are tasked with leading the agency to address the climate crisis and create clean energy jobs.
Marianne Engelman Lado, one of three new deputy general counsels for environmental initiatives in the Office of the General Counsel, was most recently.
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Amy Laura Cahn named acting director of Environmental Justice Clinic
Vermont Business Magazine The director of Vermont Law School’s (VLS) Environmental Justice Clinic (EJC) has been appointed by President Joseph Biden, Jr, to a prominent role in his administration fighting racial and economic disparities in environmental policies.
Marianne Engelman-Lado has been named deputy general counsel for environmental initiatives at the Environmental Protection Agency. The position highlights the legal expertise she employed at VLS as a law professor and the founding director of its community-based lawyering clinic. The EJC represents and partners with environmentally overburdened communities of color and low-income communities to enforce civil rights protections through an environmental lens.