Jeff Landry picks former Trump official to be state’s top environmental regulator

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Gov.-elect Jeff Landry has picked a member of former President Donald Trump’s administration to lead the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, the primary state regulator tasked with protecting residents’ health and safety from industrial facilities. Aurelia Skipwith Giacometto is expected to be the first Black woman to be environmental quality secretary for Louisiana. The Indiana

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