On Wednesday at 8 a.m., he received a phone call at home from EPA Chief of Staff Ryan Jackson and Associate Deputy Administrator Doug Benevento informing him of his immediate termination. She has been deputy administrator since 2016. Before that, she worked on Clean Air Act regulatory matters for EPA headquarters and Region 9. “I’ll always be grateful to him.”Before taking the regional administrator job, Stoker served as director of government affairs for UnitedAg, one of California’s largest agricultural associations. According to his EPA biography, he was also a member of Santa Barbara County’s Board of Supervisors from 1986-1994, chairman of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board from 1995-2000, and California deputy secretary of state from 2000-2002.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 06, 2020 23:15 UTC