Brenda Mallory, President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality, won Senate confirmation on Wednesday.
In her new role, Mallory will oversee an office that has already started reviewing changes the Trump administration undertook to relax environmental permitting under the National Environmental Policy Act for large projects, such as highways and bridges.
Mallory was approved by a 53-45 vote. She will be the CEQ’s first Black leader.
One of her first priorities will be to either navigate a path through the Trump-era changes or spearhead a rewrite of them.
The 2020 changes limit the scope ...
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