W. Michael McCabe

W. Michael McCabe
McCabe with Joe Biden in 2000
Acting Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
In office
January 20, 2001 – January 31, 2001
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byCarol Browner
Succeeded byChristine Todd Whitman
Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
In office
December 8, 1999 – January 20, 2001
Acting: December 8, 1999 – August 6, 2000
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byFred Hansen
Succeeded byLinda Fisher
Personal details
Alma materDuke University (BA)

W. Michael McCabe is an American policy advisor specializing in environmental and energy policy. He had previously served as a Regional Administrator, and later Deputy Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), being the only person in the Agency's history to serve as both. Between 2003 and 2006, McCabe consulted for DuPont and led DuPont's defense against an EPA lawsuit of the toxic PFAS chemical PFOA. In November 2020 he was named a volunteer member of the Joe Biden presidential transition Agency Review Team.