Regan Defends Biden GHG Agenda, Hedges On Details of EPA Rules

EPA Administrator-designate Michael Regan during his first Senate confirmation hearing broadly defended the Biden administration’s emerging climate change agenda as an environmental and economic priority, while keeping his options open on how the agency would help implement that agenda and pledging to work with industry. Regan’s Feb. 3 hearing before the Senate Environment &Public Works (EPW) Committee appeared to foreshadow his confirmation, with several Republican senators praising Regan even as they grilled him on the potential effects of Biden’s climate...