‘Send Him to Angola’: White Lawmaker Attacks First Black EPA Chief

By Willy Blackmore | Word In Black(WIB) – No one has run the Environmental Protection Agency quite like Michael Regan has. Since his appointment by President Biden in 2021, Regan has overseen what has at times been an aggressive, climate justice-minded agency that has undertaken a number of high-profile civil-rights investigations. Even if the investigations have largely stopped since Louisiana’s former attorney general and now Governor, Jeff Landry, sued the agency, Regan’s EPA continues to make significant progress through its role as a regulator. Just last week, the agency announced the strictest possible standards for& PFASs in drinking water (zero allowed) and new limits on chemical pollutants that will force a factory in the heart of Cancer Alley into drastic changes.All of this aside, Regan also happens to be the first Black person to head the agency.That a Black EPA administrator is trying to protect Black Americans from both pollution and climate change in a way that the federal government arguably never has before is a powerful image — and it’s also one that has made Regan a target for racist attacks.The latest came last week, when Rep. Clay Higgins, a Louisiana Republican, posted on X, formerly known as Twitter...