https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03621-6
This shows the Biden team is really going to follow through on the bold climate commitments they put forward,” says Leah Stokes, a climate-policy researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara. It’s a massive political shift, she says, “and it puts the country on track to make climate change the center of our economic policy.”
Regan spent more than nine years working in the EPA’s air quality programme under former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and another eight years working at the Environmental Defense Fund, an environmental advocacy group based in New York. For the past four, he has led North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality, where he earned the support of many environmentalists by standing up to chemical and energy companies.