Earthea Nance was tapped in December by President Joe Biden to serve as a regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency in a five-state region that includes Texas. Here's how she plans to help the Gulf Coast.
to address contamination in Fifth Ward. She spoke by phone this week with the Houston Chronicle about her background, her goals and her new job. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
It seems like such a broad job that you’ve stepped into. You’re a regulator, but it also involves some politics, and I know you have a research background. As a child, I was very curious and very geeky. I went to the library every weekend and read and read and read. It would be not unusual for me, in elementary school, to pick up a chemistry book and just start reading it. I also grew up in the late 60s and 70s during the environmental movement, and I’m from San Francisco, so that was a really important cultural thing happening. It was a natural thing for me to be an environmentalist.
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