Regan brings to the role a focus on the environmental justice side of climate change, spending eight years with the Environmental Justice Fund as VP for clean energy and the Southeast regional director.

PacifiCorp, Klamath River Renewable Corporation, Yurok and Karuk Tribal leaders, and the governors of Oregon and California signed a memorandum this week calling for the removal of the Klamath Dam, the largest hydroelectric removal project in history.