The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that Susan Hedman would be the new regional administrator. The Midwest region includes Wisconsin. Hedman graduated from Ripon College in Ripon, and earned a masters degree from the La Follette Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1979. She is also a graduate of the UW-Madison law school and earned a Ph.D. at the schoolâ??s Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies in 1989.