Reports: Biden picks North Carolina official to head Environmental Protection Agency

President-elect Joe Biden will name Michael Regan, secretary of the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality, to head the Environmental Protection Agency, according to media reports. Regan, 44, would be the first Black man to head the EPA. Among his accomplishments with the NCDEQ are brokering the multibillion-dollar settlement for coal-ash cleanup with Charlotte-based Duke Energy Corp. and establishing an environmental justice advisory board. The Goldsboro native and N.C. A&T State University…