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New EPA regional administrator has local roots

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.