{"id":205940,"date":"2026-04-22T12:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205940\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:16:08","slug":"citys-new-dep-commissioner-outlines-priorities-on-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205940\/","title":{"rendered":"City\u2019s new DEP commissioner outlines priorities on Earth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Earth Day, attention is focused on issues ranging from clean water to climate change, and New York City has a new leader at the center of those efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Garcia is the city\u2019s new commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection. She previously served as a regional administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under President Joe Biden and has also worked with the nonprofit Earthjustice, bringing experience at the federal, state and advocacy levels.<\/p>\n<p>She joined \u201cMornings On 1\u201d on Wednesday to discuss her priorities in the new role, the challenges facing the city\u2019s environmental systems and how her work at the federal level informs her approach in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the full interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Earth Day, attention is focused on issues ranging from clean water to climate change, and New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[203,2274,128,2275,9,24,12,63,380,129,131,130,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-205940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-app-education","9":"tag-app-mornings-on-1","10":"tag-bronx","11":"tag-mornings-on-1","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","17":"tag-the-bronx","18":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","19":"tag-the-bronx-news","20":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}