As President-elect Joe Biden works to fill key roles in his administration, WSJ’s Gerald F. Seib outlines four characteristics of the prospective team. Photo: Laura Kammermann President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate Michael Regan, a North Carolina environmental regulator, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency and Rep. Debra Haaland (D., N.M.) as Interior secretary, people familiar with the decisions said. Mr. Regan runs North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality. He spent nearly a decade early in his career at the EPA before taking on regional jobs at the Environmental Defense Fund and in his home state. Mr. Biden would be appointing the second Black EPA administrator in the agency’s 50-year history at a time when he wants the agency to put more emphasis on protecting minority and poor communities disproportionately affected by pollution. Ms. Haaland, an enrolled citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna in New Mexico, would be the […]

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