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The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is the head of the
United States Environmental Protection Agency The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent executive agency of the United States federal government tasked with environmental protection matters. President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA on July 9, 1970; it ...
(EPA), and is thus responsible for enforcing the nation's
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and
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s, as well as numerous other environmental statutes. The administrator is nominated by the
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and must be confirmed by a vote of the
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. On March 10, 2021, Michael S. Regan was confirmed by a vote 66 to 34 as the administrator of the EPA, the first Black man to serve in this role.


Rank in the Cabinet

Since the Clinton administration, the EPA administrator has been accorded
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by the president. The administrator of the EPA is equivalent to the position of Minister of the Environment in other countries. There have been various proposals to make the EPA a full executive department.


List of administrators


List of deputy administrators

* Robert W. Fri June 14, 1971 – April 29, 1973 * John R. Quarles Jr. April 29, 1973 – January 20, 1977 *
Barbara Blum Barbara Davis Blum (born July 6, 1939) is an American businesswoman who served as the Deputy Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency from 1977 to 1981. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Blum, Barbara 1939 births Living ...
March 7, 1977 – January 20, 1981 * John W. Hernandez Jr. May 20, 1981 – March 25, 1983 * Alvin L. Alm August 5, 1983 – May 9, 1985 * A. James Barnes May 10, 1985 – August 14, 1988 * John A. Moore (Acting) August 15, 1988 – January 20, 1989
(Acting) February 5, 1989 – May 18, 1989 * F. Henry Habicht II May 19, 1989 – January 20, 1993 * Jonathan Z. Cannon (Acting) March 8, 1993 – May 9, 1993 * Robert M. Sussman May 10, 1993 – October 17, 1994 *
Fred Hansen Frederick Morgan "Fred" Hansen (born December 29, 1940) is an American former athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault. A 1963 graduate of Rice University, he competed for the United States in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics, 19 ...
October 18, 1994 – September 30, 1998 * Peter D. Robertson (Acting) October 1, 1998 – December 7, 1999 * W. Michael McCabe (Acting) December 8, 1999 – August 5, 2000
August 6, 2000 – January 19, 2001 * Linda Fisher May 31, 2001 – June 27, 2003 * Stephen L. Johnson (Acting) July 12, 2003 – August 1, 2004
August 2, 2004 – January 26, 2005 *
Marcus Peacock Marcus C. Peacock (born March 21, 1960) was the minority staff director at the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget. He is a former Deputy Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He served at the EPA from August 8 ...
August 8, 2005 – January 20, 2009 * Scott Fulton February 4, 2009 – December 24, 2009 * Bob Perciasepe December 24, 2009 – August 8, 2014 * Lisa Feldt (Acting) August 8, 2014 – October 7, 2014 * Stan Meiburg (Acting) October 7, 2014 – January 20, 2017 * Mike Flynn January 20, 2017 – April 3, 2018 * Andrew R. Wheeler April 20, 2018 – February 28, 2019 * Henry Darwin July 9, 2018 – September 2019 *
Janet McCabe Janet Garvin McCabe is an American attorney and academic who serves as the deputy administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency since April 29, 2021. Education McCabe earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and Juris Doctor from ...
April 29, 2021 – Present


Acting administrators

Acting administrators usually assume the office in the interim period between the resignation of a previous administrator and the confirmation of his or her successor, including during the transition period between two presidential administrations, before the successor has been nominated and confirmed. Acting administrators come from within the EPA and usually hold an office that is subject to Senate confirmation before becoming the acting administrator. Linda Fisher and Stephen L. Johnson had served as Deputy Administrator when they became acting administrator.
Marianne Lamont Horinko Marianne Lamont Horinko (born May 10, 1961) served as Acting Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from July 14, 2003 to November 5, 2003 during the first term of President George W. Bush. Prior to this appointm ...
was an assistant administrator at the time. They are not subject to Senate confirmation to serve as the acting administrator, though to continue to serve as a full-fledged administrator (as in the case of Lee M. Thomas or Stephen L. Johnson), they must be confirmed by the Senate.


Line of succession

The line of succession for the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is as follows: #Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency #General Counsel #Assistant Administrator for the Office of Land and Emergency Management #Assistant Administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention #Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation #Assistant Administrator for the Office of Water #Assistant Administrator for the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance #Chief Financial Officer #Assistant Administrator for the Office of Research and Development #Assistant Administrator for the Office of International and Tribal Affairs #Assistant Administrator for the Office of Administration and Resources Management #Assistant Administrator for the Office of Environmental Information #Regional Administrator, Region 7 (
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,
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) #Principal Deputy General Counsel #Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance #Deputy Regional Administrator, Region 2 (
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) #Deputy Regional Administrator, Region 5 (
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)


See also

* White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy *
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References

* {{EPA Administrators of the United States Environmental Protection Agency
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