EPA Air Chief Aaron Szabo to Resign on July 17 After 1 Year in Post
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Updated · The New York Times · Jul 7
EPA Air Chief Aaron Szabo to Resign on July 17 After 1 Year in Post
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 7
Summary
July 17 is when Aaron Szabo told EPA staff he will step down as head of the Office of Air and Radiation, ending nearly a year in the Senate-confirmed role.
Szabo gave no reason for leaving after overseeing a major rollback agenda under President Trump, including repeal of the endangerment finding that underpinned federal greenhouse-gas regulation.
January also brought another shift under his office: the EPA stopped assigning a monetary value to lives saved when weighing limits on deadly air pollution.
In the coming months, the agency is still expected to unveil a plan Szabo had been developing to erase power-plant climate pollution limits, extending Trump’s reversal of Biden- and Obama-era policies.