{"id":10178,"date":"2021-11-18T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&p=10178"},"modified":"2021-11-19T16:19:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T21:19:22","slug":"sens-ossoff-rev-warnock-on-epa-southeast-regional-administrator-appointment","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sens-ossoff-rev-warnock-on-epa-southeast-regional-administrator-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Sens. Ossoff & Rev. Warnock on EPA Southeast Regional Administrator Appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, D.C.<\/strong> \u2014 Georgia U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock today released the following statements after President Joe Biden\u2019s appointment of Daniel Blackman to serve as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Administrator for Region 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Region 4 Administrator, based in Atlanta, oversees Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and six tribes for the EPA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPleased that President Biden accepted my recommendation to appoint Daniel Blackman as Region 4 Administrator for the EPA,\u201d Sen. Ossoff said<\/strong>. \u201cI am confident and expect that he will bring vision and focus to environmental protection in Southeast region.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe U.S. Environmental Protect Agency is tasked with protecting the health of our environment and our communities, and I am thrilled to see Daniel Blackman nominated for this critical leadership position within the agency,\u201d said Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock<\/strong>. \u201cAs climate change presents a real and urgent threat to our country, Daniel has been a steadfast champion for environmental stewardship and creating opportunities for underserved communities across Georgia. EPA\u2019s Southeast region will benefit from his leadership, and I thank President Biden for heeding the advice of Senator Ossoff and I in making this appointment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI appreciate the service and leadership Senators Ossoff and Warnock bring our country, and grateful to President Biden for this opportunity to join EPA and serve the people of Region 4,\u201d Blackman said.<\/strong> \u201cI\u2019ve spent my entire career working to protect the environment and our communities from the effects of climate change, especially those marginalized and left behind. I look forward to hitting the ground running to support Administrator Regan in advancing the Biden Administration\u2019s commitment to working with our state, local, and Tribal partners to secure clean air, safe food, and clean drinking water throughout the region.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Blackman has spent over a decade advising policymakers at the Georgia state capitol\u202fand advocating on behalf of Georgia ratepayers and small businesses in energy-related matters before the state\u2019s Public Service Commission.\u202fHe served as chairman of the Georgia Chapter of the Sierra Club and board member for the ACLU. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blackman has worked throughout EPA Region 4 to secure environmental, health and economic justice and to convene stakeholders with federal agencies. His work in addressing groundwater contamination at nuclear plants and its impact on public health and safety has given him the opportunity to testify numerous times before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; and his commitment to working throughout the Southeastern United States to push for legislation that addresses toxic ash left behind from burning coal has given him the opportunity to play a key role in the transitioning from coal to clean energy in the United States.

Blackman is the son of immigrants from Barbados and is an alumnus of Clark Atlanta University. He and his wife Jeanelle are the proud parents of four children, and the family resides in Forsyth County, Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Washington, D.C. \u2014 Georgia U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock today released the following statements after President Joe Biden\u2019s appointment of Daniel Blackman to serve as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Administrator for Region 4. The Region 4 Administrator, based in Atlanta, oversees Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and six tribes […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10178","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10180,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10178\/revisions\/10180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}