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EPA congressional-affairs staffer returns to the House

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Jan. 12, 2021

An Environmental Protection Agency staffer has moved back to the House ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's anticipated "transformational" nomination to head the agency.

John Mark Kolb is now legislative director to freshman Rep. María Salazar (R-Fla.). He's previously worked for ex-Reps. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) and Joe Heck (R-Nev.) and comes from the EPA, where he was deputy director of congressional affairs.

Biden is expected to select Michael Regan, currently North Carolina's top-ranking environmental regulator, as EPA administrator to replace Andrew Wheeler, a former fossil-fuel lobbyist.