Jared Blumenfeld, California's top environmental regulator and a key climate adviser to Gov. Gavin Newsom, will leave the administration at the end of the month, Newsom announced Friday.
Newsom, a Democrat, appointed Blumenfeld as secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency on his first day in office in 2019. Blumenfeld will become the president of the As head of the state's environmental agency, he was responsible for departments that regulate air pollution, water use, recycling, toxic substances, pesticides, environmental health hazards like extreme heat.
Blumenfeld was one of the most public-facing members of Newsom's administration, representing the state at international conferences and public hearings. He was personally named in a lawsuit by the Trump administration challenging California's ability to link its emissions trading program with a similar one in Canada.
He also oversaw the water board as it responded to California's latest drought and the air board as it put together a road map to reach carbon neutrality by 2045.
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