People: Agriculture industry attorney expected to become EPA Region 9 chief

The Trump administration is expected to name a California agriculture industry attorney to become the next EPA Region 9 administrator, according to a media report, a move that would fill the last top political position in the agency's 10 regional offices. Michael Stoker, the Republican agriculture attorney, will become the new chief of the San Francisco-based Region 9 office that covers California, Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, the Pacific Islands and about 150 Native American tribes, according to an April 30 article...