Senior lawyer gets waiver from Biden's ethics pledge

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top EPA attorney has received a waiver from President Biden's ethics pledge.Marianne Engelman-Lado was granted a "limited waiver" from the ethics pledge earlier this month so she couldparticipate in "certain particular matters" tied to pesticides and toxic chemicals involving her former client, theNatural Resources Defense Council, one of the most prominent environmental organizations in the country.Engelman-Lado, who serves as deputy general counsel for environmental initiatives, is the first Biden politicalappointee at EPA granted a waiver from the pledge, an EPA spokesperson told E&E News. She is one of sevenappointees listed on the Office of Government Ethics' website as having received such a waiver.