Ewire: Biden taps McCabe to be deputy EPA chief

President-elect Joe Biden has selected Janet McCabe, EPA’s top air quality official during the latter half of the Obama administration, to be the agency’s deputy administrator, tapping another experienced climate policy hand as the incoming administration moves to implement Biden’s broad climate change agenda. In a Jan. 15 announcement, Biden noted that McCabe joined EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) as principal deputy assistant administrator in November 2009. She then took over as acting OAR chief in July 2013,...