Regan, the first Black man to lead the nation’s environmental agency, was tabbed by President Joe Biden after serving as secretary of North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality.

The man, who was later identified as 77-year-old Joe Regan, was cutting trees behind a home at 289 Hayden Rowe St. (Route 85) when the hydraulics in his bucket truck malfunctioned at about 11:40 a ...