Biden Picks for EPA Water, Chemical Offices Move to Senate Floor

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A Senate panel on Wednesday approved Biden administration nominees to lead the EPA’s water and chemicals offices, as well as the Interior Department’s fish, wildlife, and parks division.The nominations of Radhika Fox to be the Environmental Protection Agency’s assistant administrator for water, Michal Freedhoff to be the agency’s assistant administrator for chemicalsafety and pollution prevention, and Shannon Estenoz to be Interior’s assistant secretary of fish and wildlife and parks all easily cleared the Senate Environment and Public WorksCommittee. Their nominations will now go to the Senate floor.1. Prior to the vote, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), the panel’s top Republican, said she couldn’t support Fox because she was “very vague” during her confirmation hearing aboutwhether she thought the Obama-era Navigable Waters Protection Rule was overreaching.