EPA’s Top Cop Finally Cleared for Job as Senate Confirms Uhlmann

David Uhlmann, the White House’s pick to lead the EPA’s enforcement office, will finally ascend to the job after the Senate voted 53-46 Thursday to confirm him following an odyssey lasting more than two years.

Uhlmann takes the leadership of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, which the Biden administration wants to get tough on polluters and other violators of federal air, water, land, and chemicals laws.

“There has not been a Senate-confirmed official leading EPA’s enforcement efforts for far too long,” Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said ...