WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has approved President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency's air pollution office just as the agency is set to finalize rules over climate-changing emissions from power plants and cars and trucks.
Joe Goffman is a longtime EPA official who has headed the air and radiation office on an acting basis since Biden took office three years ago.
Goffman's 2022 nomination for the air post, one of the top jobs at EPA, lapsed last year without a Senate vote.
She called the Clean Power Plan “a direct shot at American energy production" and an attempt to shut down coal- and gas-fired power plants, including those in her home state.
An EPA plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions from power plants is little more than the "second iteration of the Clean Power Plan,'' Capito said.
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