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Diane Lynn Black (nee Warren 16 January 1951) is an American politician and nurse who was an U.S. Representative for Tennessee’s 6th congressional district from January 3 2011, until January 3 2019. The district encompasses many rural and suburban regions east of Nashville. A Republican who had previously served in Tennessee’s Senate. Tennessee Senate, serving as the floor leader of Republican Caucus. She was unsuccessful in her bid for an election for the Republican candidate in 2018’s Tennessee governor’s race.
Black championed a loophole which allowed one trucking company (Fitzgerald) to skirt emissions rules, allowing the firm to produce trucks that emit 40 to 55 times the air pollutants of other new trucks. When the Obama administration sought to close the loophole, Black introduced legislation in 2015 to protect the loophole; the bill failed. She later appealed to the Trump administration’s EPA head, Scott Pruitt, to protect the loophole, which he did. As of February 2018, individuals and entities related to the Fitzgerald trucking company had donated $225,000 to Black’s 2018 campaign for Tennessee Governor; 12% of the total money from outside sources in her campaign. In September 2017, Fitzgerald hired its first federal lobbyist; it was a former aide to Black.
In October 2015, Black was named to serve on the Select Investigative Panel on Planned Parenthood.
