{"id":212464,"date":"2021-03-11T16:45:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T21:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=212464"},"modified":"2021-03-11T16:45:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T21:45:11","slug":"senate-confirms-biden-pick-to-lead-epa-despite-gop-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-confirms-biden-pick-to-lead-epa-despite-gop-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms Biden pick to lead EPA despite GOP opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-confirms-biden-pick-to-lead-epa-despite-gop-opposition%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=212464&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2385703\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2385703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EPA Administrator Michael Regan. (Photo by Joshua Roberts\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 1:40 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, March 11, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The Senate confirmed Joe Biden\u2019s pick to lead the EPA despite strong opposition from Republican senators. North Carolina Regulator Michael Regan was approved in a 66-to-34 vote on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell voted against the nomination. He said Regan supported far-left policies that would crush jobs in his state of Kentucky and across the U.S.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2385704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2385704\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2385704 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-360.jpeg\" alt=\"WILMINGTON, DE - DECEMBER 19: Nominee for EPA Administrator, Michael Regan, speaks at the Queen theater on December 19, 2020 in Wilmington, DE. President-elect Joe Biden announced his climate and energy team that will advance an ambitious agenda to address the issues of climate change. (Photo by Joshua Roberts\/Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-360.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-361.jpeg 315w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-362.jpeg 655w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-363.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2385704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Carolina Regulator Michael Regan. (Photo by Joshua Roberts\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) echoed McConnell\u2019s concerns, adding that Regan was bound to repeat the same mistakes of the Obama administration, which killed jobs in her state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout his confirmation process, Secretary Regan did not commit to a different policy agenda than that of the Obama administration,\u201d Capito noted. \u201cAn agenda that absolutely devastated, devastated my state and other energy-producing states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regan\u2019s appointment made him the first black man to lead the EPA.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/oann.com\/recall-calif-gov-newsom-effort-surpasses-2m-signatures\/\">Recall Calif. Gov. Newsom Effort Surpasses 2M Signatures<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EPA Administrator Michael Regan. (Photo by Joshua Roberts\/Getty Images) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 1:40 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, March 11, 2021 The Senate confirmed Joe Biden\u2019s pick to lead the EPA &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310480,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-360.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Senate confirms Biden pick to lead EPA despite GOP opposition","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-360.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Senate confirms Biden pick to lead EPA despite GOP opposition","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}