Regan has served as North Carolina’s top environmental official since early 2017, when Gov. “Right away he prioritized climate change, environmental justice and coal ash cleanup,” said Cassie Gavin, the Sierra Club’s director of government relations for North Carolina. In another high-profile case under Regan, North Carolina ordered the chemical company Chemours to virtually eliminate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a group of man-made chemicals, from seeping into the Cape Fear River. The pipelines would “have adverse impacts on low-income and indigenous communities” and should have been opposed on environmental justice grounds, he said. “Secretary Regan’s heart tells him environmental justice is an important issue,” Longest said.

Source: Washington Post December 17, 2020 17:46 UTC