Reagan, who will become the first black man to run an EPA, tells Rolling Stone that rebuilding the agency is his first priority. “We have world-renowned experts at EPA,” he says. “We should listen to them, and we should.”
With the Biden administration vowing to use every executive power to curb climate change, an enthusiastic EPA will be at the center of its ambitious goals of reducing emissions. “I will focus on how we limit methane emissions,” Reagan said of the greenhouse gases released into the natural-gas operation.
It lists environmental justice and water quality as its other priorities, but guiding its approach to all these ambitions is the belief that what is good for the planet is also good for workers and business – a conviction biden shares. “The priorities I’ve set will be good for people, for the planet, and for profit,” says Reagan.
His personal philosophy is to “try to meet people wherever they are, understand everyone’s challenges, whether personal or company, and then think, ‘How can you reach a compromise in a way that might work?’ ”
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