Longtime Florida Official Named Head of EPA’s Science Office

The EPA on Monday announced the permanent head of a new science office created by the Trump administration that replaced the shuttered research and development wing.

Teresa Booeshaghi, a 24-year veteran of the the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, is now the associate administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Applied Science and Environmental Solutions (OASES).

Her new role will be to “advance EPA’s core mission of protecting human health and the environment,” the agency said in a statement.

Most recently, Booeshaghi served as deputy assistant administrator for policy at the EPA’s Office of Land and Emergency Management, a ...