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Deputy EPA Administrator Andrew R. Wheeler of Virginia – Administrator of the Small Business Administration Announced April 4, 2019 Assumed office January 14, 2020: Treasurer of the United States Jovita Carranza of Illinois – Director of the Office of Management and Budget Announced January 2, 2019 Assumed office January 2, 2019 [n 5 ...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters. [2] 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. [3]
Acting administrators come from within the EPA and usually hold an office that is subject to Senate confirmation before becoming the acting administrator. Linda Fisher and Stephen L. Johnson had served as Deputy Administrator when they became acting administrator. Marianne Lamont Horinko was an assistant administrator at the time. They are not ...
The EPA finalized biofuel blending volumes at 20.94 billion gallons in 2023, 21.54 billion gallons in 2024 and 22.33 billion gallons in 2025. (Reporting by Stephanie Kelly; Editing by Marguerita Choy)
This is a list of Superfund sites in Indiana designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
According to EPA author Jack Lewis, the decade of the 1960s fostered a general consensus of the American public to increase protection and betterment of the environment. [2] Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1962, which is widely credited with helping to launch the environmental movement in the United States. [ 3 ]
Elon Musk speaks with his son X Æ A-12 on his shoulders while next to U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 11, 2025.
Top Trump administration officials are set to meet with senior Russian officials to begin talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, according to multiple sources. National security adviser Mike ...