Biden’s Emerging Environmental Policy Team Draws Mixed Reaction

President-elect Joe Biden’s emerging environment team -- including the choice of former EPA chief Gina McCarthy to be domestic climate “czar” -- is prompting a mix of initial praise from advocates along with consternation from policy experts that he reportedly has moved on from California’s Mary Nichols to be EPA chief. Instead, sources are suggesting that Biden is poised to announce in the coming days that North Carolina environment secretary Michael Regan will be his EPA pick, though other reports...