“Environmental groups and communities grappling with contamination from so-called forever chemicals have mixed feelings about President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for EPA administrator, Michael Regan.
“I’m not thrilled with Regan’s performance on the Chemours consent order. We really need someone heading up the EPA who will take PFAS contamination order seriously, and hold these companies liable for all the pollution they caused,” Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility’s Kyla Bennett, who used to work on enforcement in EPA’s New England region, wrote in an email. “That consent order simply did not go far enough.””
