Q&A: EPA’s top water official on Biden’s climate, equity goals
Radhika Fox vividly remembers growing up in rural India without running water or flushing toilets. The newly confirmed head of EPA’s Office of Water lived with her grandmother while her parents finished their medical training in New York City. “When the monsoon season came, the roads flooded because they were mud,” Fox said in a recent interview. “At least our little village was an oasis unto its own.” Fox said it’s an “incredible dream and honor” to serve as the first woman of color in the role of assistant administrator at EPA’s Office of Water after such “humble beginnings.”