EPA Rejects Blackburn’s Ethics Pledge Request For Regan Advisor Garbow

EPA is rejecting Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s (R-TN) call for Avi Garbow, a former Obama EPA general counsel and now Administrator Michael Regan’s senior counselor, to sign an ethics pledge or disclose financial information, prompting the senator to warn that Garbow is a “radical activist” who might have significant conflicts of interest. In particular, Blackburn attacks Garbow for his work for clothing company Patagonia, where he has been an environmental advocate since March 2019. The senator says that the company --...