The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters. President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA on July 9,1970;it began operation on December 2,1970,after Nixon signed an executive order. The order establishing the EPA was ratified by committee hearings in the House and Senate.
The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is the head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),and is thus responsible for enforcing the nation's Clean Air and Clean Water Acts,as well as numerous other environmental statutes. The administrator is nominated by the president of the United States and must be confirmed by a vote of the Senate.
Lisa Perez Jackson is an American chemical engineer who served as the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 2009 to 2013. She was the first African American to hold that position.
Edward Scott Pruitt is an American attorney,lobbyist and Republican politician from the state of Oklahoma. He served as the 14th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from February 17,2017,to July 9,2018,during the Donald Trump presidency,resigning while under at least 14 federal investigations. Pruitt denies the scientific consensus on climate change.
Linda Jane Fisher was a Vice President Safety,Health and Environment and Chief Sustainability Officer of DuPont.
David McLane Gardiner is an American environmental strategist who has worked for the Clinton administration and United States Environmental Protection Agency. Gardiner was a member of the United States delegation present at the negotiations for the Kyoto Protocol.
Robert Perciasepe is an American former government official who currently serves as a senior adviser to McKinsey and Company and the nonprofit Center for Climate and Energy Solutions,following his role as President of the organization. He served as the Deputy Administrator and Acting Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during the administration of Barack Obama.
Regina McCarthy is an American air quality expert who served as the first White House national climate advisor from 2021 to 2022. She previously served as the thirteenth Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2013 to 2017.
The Alliance for Water Efficiency is a stakeholder-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the efficient and sustainable use of water. The organization serves as a North American advocate for water-efficient products and programs,and provides information and assistance on water conservation efforts. The organization's activities include advocacy,research,and training. The organization received early support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The Clean Water Rule is a 2015 regulation published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to clarify water resource management in the United States under a provision of the Clean Water Act of 1972. The regulation defined the scope of federal water protection in a more consistent manner,particularly over streams and wetlands which have a significant hydrological and ecological connection to traditional navigable waters,interstate waters,and territorial seas. It is also referred to as the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule,which defines all bodies of water that fall under U.S. federal jurisdiction. The rule was published in response to concerns about lack of clarity over the act's scope from legislators at multiple levels,industry members,researchers and other science professionals,activists,and citizens.
The Clean Power Plan was an Obama administration policy aimed at combating climate change that was first proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in June 2014. The final version of the plan was unveiled by President Barack Obama on August 3,2015. Each state was assigned a target for reducing carbon emissions within its borders,which could be accomplished how the states saw fit,but with the possibility of the EPA stepping in if a state refused to submit a plan. If every state met its target,the plan was projected to reduce carbon emissions from electricity generation by 32 percent relative to 2005 levels by 2030,and would have reduced other harmful air pollution as well.
The environmental policy of the first Donald Trump administration represented a shift from the policy priorities and goals of the preceding Barack Obama administration. Where President Obama's environmental agenda prioritized the reduction of carbon emissions through the use of renewable energy with the goal of conserving the environment for future generations,the Trump administration policy was for the US to attain energy independence based on fossil fuel use and to rescind many environmental regulations. By the end of Trump's term,his administration had rolled back 98 environmental rules and regulations,leaving an additional 14 rollbacks still in progress. As of early 2021,the Biden administration was making a public accounting of regulatory decisions under the Trump administration that had been influenced by politics rather than science.
Susan Parker Bodine is an American lawyer and government official who served as the Assistant Administrator for Enforcement and Compliance Assurance at the Environmental Protection Agency. She also previously served as chief counsel for the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. She was appointed in 2017 and left the agency in 2021.
Andrew R. Wheeler is an American attorney who served as the 15th administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 2019 to 2021. He served as the deputy administrator from April to July 2018,and served as the acting administrator from July 2018 to February 2019. He has been a senior advisor to Governor of Virginia Glenn Youngkin since March 2022. He previously worked in the law firm Faegre Baker Daniels,representing coal magnate Robert E. Murray and lobbying against the Obama administration's environmental regulations. Wheeler served as chief counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and to the chairman U.S. senator James Inhofe,prominent for his rejection of climate change. Wheeler is a critic of limits on greenhouse gas emissions and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Paul Trombino III is an American engineer and government official. He served as director of the Iowa Department of Transportation from 2011 to 2016. Trombino was nominated by President Donald Trump to become Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA),but withdrew in December 2017.
Michael L. Dourson is an American toxicologist and Director of Science at the nonprofit organization,Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment. He was formerly a senior advisor to the Administrator of EPA,and prior to that,a professor at the Risk Science Center at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Prior to joining the University of Cincinnati,he was founder and president of the nonprofit Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment. Earlier in his career,he was employed by the Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office,among other assignments.
William Ludwig Wehrum Jr. is an American attorney,lobbyist,and government official who served as Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for Air and Radiation in the first Donald Trump administration.
Patrick Joseph Bumatay is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Michael Stanley Regan is an American environmental regulator. He served as the 16th administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President [Joe Biden] from 2021 to 2024. He was the first African American man to serve in the role.
David M. Uhlmann is an American educator and attorney who served as the assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency within the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance during the Presidency of Joe Biden. He previously served as a deputy assistant administrator in the same division and as an environmental law professor at the University of Michigan Law School.
