Michael S. Regan
Michael Regan | |
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Official portrait, 2021 | |
| 16th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency | |
| In office March 11, 2021 – December 31, 2024 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Deputy | Janet McCabe Jane Nishida (acting) |
| Preceded by | Andrew R. Wheeler |
| Succeeded by | Lee Zeldin |
| 2nd Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality | |
| In office January 3, 2017 – March 11, 2021 | |
| Governor | Roy Cooper |
| Preceded by | Donald van der Vaart |
| Succeeded by | Dionne Delli-Gatti |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Michael Stanley Regan August 6, 1976 |
| Party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Melvina |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | North Carolina A&T State University (BS) George Washington University (MPA) |
Michael Stanley Regan (born August 6, 1976) is an American environmental regulator who served as the 16th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President Joe Biden from 2021 to 2024. He was the first African American man to serve in the role.
Regan has formerly served as the secretary of North Carolina's Department of Environmental Quality and air quality specialist in the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Since leaving the EPA at the end of the Biden Administration, Regan returned to North Carolina as a Distinguished Fellow at the Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy.