As the Biden administration wrestles with implementing executive orders on climate change, the president will be proceeding without someone environmentalists see as one of the most skilled and effective regulatory tacticians in the country.
Mary Nichols has been pivotal in California’s war on smog. But as her tenure ends next week, activists say she didn’t do enough to protect low-income communities and they scuttled her candidacy for Biden’s top environmental post.
Mary Nichols, a national figure in environmental regulation with a string of achievements, seems a natural choice for EPA chief under a Biden administration. But some environmental justice activists have pushed back.
Mary Nichols is a favorite to win the nomination to lead President-elect Joe Biden's EPA. But of the current top contenders for the post, she also could face the toughest path to Senate confirmation.
