Posted on 11/27/2020 3:51:06 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Over four decades, Mary Nichols has been the regulator behind some of the nation’s most ambitious climate policies and, in recent years, she’s been their staunchest defender against President Donald Trump’s effort to dismantle them.
With Joe Biden heading to the White House, Nichols hopes she is not done yet.
Nichols, 75, ends her second tenure as chair of the California Air Resources Board next month, a job that’s made her the top air and climate regulator for the nation’s most populous and economically influential state. She is viewed as a leading contender to be named as Biden’s administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency.
For Nichols, it would cap a career of championing stringent air pollution rules, negotiating landmark vehicle emissions standards and implementing California’s carbon trading system. She worked at the EPA from 1993 to 1997 as head of the Office of Air and Radiation.
“Not everybody has actually run a climate action program, or an air program for that matter. And I like working with large bureaucracies,” Nichols told The Associated Press. “If they offered it, I would take it.”
To her allies, Nichols’ decades of experience implementing climate policy and her long relationships make her an ideal candidate to lead the agency as it goes through the arduous process of reversing Trump administration actions. During Trump’s tenure, she fought to preserve California’s ability to set its own automobile emissions standards and resisted his efforts to roll back power plant pollution regulations.
“There’s no one in America who combines both the technical and political work and experience as Mary Nichols has,” said former California Gov. Jerry Brown.
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2. This article is in need of a mega-barf alert.
Just what we need a Green Nazi at the EPA, but that is pretty standard for Democrats.
Everything about a Biden administration screams disaster
Personnel experience with this ——- she will destroy our economy if she has the chance.
Looks like another militant dyke with a chip on her shoulder. Of course.
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Another liberal fossil from the 60’s.
Peter Principle at work.
with a HUGE pension paid for by the taxpayers
that old witch needs to take a dirt nap
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