WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden’s nominee to run the Environmental Protection Agency says he learned the importance of preserving the outdoors while hunting and fishing with his father and grandfather in rural North Carolina.
Those beautiful waters and land are a legacy they were proud to share with me, but also taught me that protecting them was my responsibility as well,” Michael Regan told a Senate committee Wednesday in prepared testimony for his confirmation hearing. Preserving our natural resources isnt something to balance with economic growth. Its one of the keys to economic growth, along with protecting public health and our way of life.”
Regan, who has served as top environmental regulator in his home states since 2017, would be the first African American man to run the EPA. He made a name for himself in North Carolina by pursuing cleanups of industrial toxins and helping the low-income and minority communities significantly affected by pollution.
If confirmed by the…
