Bay Area air district taps EPA EJ official as new chief

Philip Fine, who has served as a top environmental justice (EJ) official at EPA, is slated to begin work next month as the next executive officer of the San Francisco Bay Area Air Quality Management District, the regional agency responsible for overseeing air quality in the nine-county area. “I am honored to join such an innovative, leading-edge agency with the opportunity to build upon its impressive air quality and public health accomplishments,” Fine said in a statement last month announcing...