A trio of recent picks by President-elect Biden for his environmental team will put environmental justice issues at the center of his administration’s agenda. As Juliet Eilperin, Brady Dennis and I report , Biden made a series of firsts with his top-level hiring decisions this week. Those picks are set to seriously tackle the disproportionate impact certain communities face from despoiled air and land. The former vice president is set to nominate North Carolina environmental regulator Michael S. Regan to become the first Black man to head the Environmental Protection Agency and Obama administration veteran Brenda Mallory to serve as the first Black chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. And he is tapping Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) to serve as the first Native American head of the Department of the Interior, which oversees most of the nation’s vast natural resources as well as tribal lands. The […]