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Government,
Environmental & Energy,
Administrative/Regulatory

Dec. 30, 2020

Priorities for President-elect Joe Biden’s EPA

It’s been a long and dispiriting four years for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald Trump.

Richard M. Frank

Professor of Environmental Practice
UC Davis School of Law

Richard is director of the California Environmental Law & Policy Center at the UC Davis School of Law.

Priorities for President-elect Joe Biden’s EPA
An undated photo of Joe Biden's pick for administrator of the EPA, Michael Regan. (New York Times News Service)

It's been a long and dispiriting four years for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald Trump. There's a large measure of truth in the wry rebranding of the current agency by many observers as the anti-Environmental Protection Agency. The past four years have damaged considerably the stature and reputation of the EPA, a regulatory agency created 50 years ago by another Republican president, Richard Nixon.

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