"After more than a decade working for BP, Wynn Radford IV has a leadership position at the EPA regional office covering five states, including Texas and Louisiana. He has been cleared to work on matters relating to his former employer."
"Wynn Radford IV, chief of staff for the Environmental Protection Agency Region 6, previously worked as a spokesperson for the multinational oil company BP following the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The April 2010 explosion on an offshore BP drilling rig killed 11 people and caused the largest marine oil spill in history, leaking almost 134 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico before it was capped 87 days later
Radford assumed his new role on April 21 serving under Regional Administrator Scott Mason IV, the Trump administration’s appointee as Region 6 chief. Radford was a BP spokesperson and a director of communications for BP America between 2010 and 2023.
Radford will now provide leadership for the EPA office that oversees the nation’s most productive oil and gas basins and aspects of offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Joe Robledo, the EPA Region 6 press officer, said that Radford does not have any financial conflicts of interest with BP and has satisfied federal ethics standards. This means he will be able to work on issues involving BP at the EPA, Robledo said."
Martha Pskowski reports for Inside Climate News July 18, 2025.
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