EPA’s top policy official, Vicki Arroyo, plans to exit the agency next month to return to her post at Georgetown University.
As EPA’s associate administrator for policy, Arroyo has played a central part in many of the Biden administration’s major environmental policies, ranging from climate regulations to the implementation of massive infrastructure and climate laws.
She plans to return to her position on the Georgetown faculty, where she’s been on leave since joining the Biden administration in January 2021, Arroyo told colleagues Tuesday in an email. She’ll exit the agency at the end of November, she said.
“I will be forever proud of the work we have done in fulfilling EPA’s mission to protect human health and our environment,” Arroyo wrote. “There have been countless times” the policy office has “weighed in to make EPA’s analysis more rigorous, our rules more protective, and our actions and investments more resilient and more just,” she said.