With these funds, the Bay Program has been able to make significant strides in meeting the goal of restoring the bay by 2025.
Michael Regan
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Michael Stanley Regan is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party, currently serving as the Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality since January 2020. In this role, he has focused on issues related to environmental justice and public health, advocating for policies that address lead exposure and promote sustainable practices. Regan has emphasized the importance of research and innovation in environmental protection, aiming to safeguard the health of North Carolinians and their environment.
Anything that we finalize will not degradate the beneficial use of control burns, prescribed burns, and would be able to deal with wildfires.
I believe the WOTUS that we have constructed will provide certainty and durability, right, and I think it will give a better opportunity for our farmers to have more security.
We want to be sure that whether it is our TCTAC program or our Closing the Wastewater Gap for this $150 million in technical assistance, that we are blanketing the country and not leaving any communities behind.
We want to support our specialty crop producers, and we are looking at all kinds of ways to provide the flexibilities and the labeling that we need to keep our specialty crop farmers, our small farmers in a most competitive posture.
I have met with the biodiesel, biofuels groups, and they have made us aware of some information.
Mr. Regan, these are the realities that specialty crop growers in my district and in Florida, Texas, and California, and everywhere else have to contend with.
This Administration is the first Administration to ever set a drinking water standard for PFAS.
I might be biased, but I would say I am right, and I think Secretary Vilsack agrees with me.
It is absolutely imperative that we have additional research into this chemical compound, and into the technologies, that will deter this from entering our bodies.
We have made a lot of strides in environmental justice, I am proud of our environmental justice record.
It is absolutely imperative that we have additional research into this chemical compound, and into the technologies, that will deter this from entering our bodies.
There is absolutely no acceptable or safe level of lead exposure, for our children, or for anyone.
We have made a lot of strides in environmental justice, I am proud of our environmental justice record.
In some cases because of income, and because of race, because of ZIP code, we are seeing an undue and unfair burden.
Our job is fundamentally about keeping people safe, to safeguard the very things that we all as Americans hold dear.
You need resources to go in to respond to the emergency, to clean up the emergency.
We are able, with technology, to detect levels of pollution that we have never been able to detect before.
We want to do is keep the focus on the bad actors, which are those who pollute, not our agriculture community





