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Senate confirms EPA administrator pick

The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.Legislators voted 66-34 Wednesday to have Michael Regan lead the agency.Regan has served as North Carolina’s top environmental regulator since 2017.The confirmation puts Regan as the first Black man to run the EPA. Lisa Jackson, EPA administrator in President Barack Obama’s first term, was the first African American to lead the agency.Regan is