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Regan was appointed by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, who in 2016 beat a Republican incumbent. By
12/21/2020 In nominating North Carolina’s Michael Regan to head the Environmental Protection Agency, President-elect Joseph Biden has tapped a state regulator who for the past four years has navigated a political divide as contentious as the one he’ll face in Washington, D.C. As secretary of the state’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) since 2017, Regan has confronted climate change, water quality, and the impact of corporate livestock farming. He has also played regulatory
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, working within options limited by the power of North Carolina industries and their allies in the Republican-controlled state legislature.