Regan points to his efforts to hold accountable Chemours, which is the main business blamed for the toxic PFAS pollution, and other work ranging from improving regulation of the state's giant hog farms to releasing a plan to cut climate-damaging fossil fuel pollution from power plants by 70 percent within 10 years.He previously spent almost a decade at the federal EPA, including managing a national program for air-pollution issues.His past jobs included serving as an associate vice president for climate and energy issues at the Environmental Defense Fund advocacy group and as head of his own environmental and energy consulting firm.Regan, who is Black, has a bachelor’s degree from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State.