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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScott Pruitt's replacement at EPA is a formal Coal Industry Lobbyist.
Who is Andrew Wheeler, Scott Pruitt's replacement at the EPA?
WASHINGTON -- Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned Thursday amid a number of scandals. President Trump said on Twitter he accepted Pruitt's resignation and announced that Pruitt's deputy at the EPA, Andrew Wheeler, will serve as acting administrator starting Monday.
Wheeler, a former coal industry lobbyist, was confirmed as Pruitt's No. 2 in April despite complaints from Democrats that Wheeler helped lead a fight by the coal industry to block regulations that protect Americans' health and begin to address climate change.
In April, Jeff Turrentine, the Culture & Politics columnist at The National Resources Defense Council's magazine onEarth, wrote: "If you're hoping Wheeler could represent some sort of departure from Pruitt's (literal) scorched-earth agenda, he wouldn't."
Until his nomination by President Trump last fall, Wheeler worked as a lobbyist with a client list that included Murray Energy, one of the nation's largest coal mining companies. He accompanied Murray CEO Robert "Bob" Murray during a series of closed-door meetings to lobby the Trump administration to kill environmental regulations affecting coal mines.
Wheeler, a former coal industry lobbyist, was confirmed as Pruitt's No. 2 in April despite complaints from Democrats that Wheeler helped lead a fight by the coal industry to block regulations that protect Americans' health and begin to address climate change.
In April, Jeff Turrentine, the Culture & Politics columnist at The National Resources Defense Council's magazine onEarth, wrote: "If you're hoping Wheeler could represent some sort of departure from Pruitt's (literal) scorched-earth agenda, he wouldn't."
Until his nomination by President Trump last fall, Wheeler worked as a lobbyist with a client list that included Murray Energy, one of the nation's largest coal mining companies. He accompanied Murray CEO Robert "Bob" Murray during a series of closed-door meetings to lobby the Trump administration to kill environmental regulations affecting coal mines.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/andrew-wheeler-acting-epa-administrator-former-number-two-before-scott-pruitt-resignation/
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Scott Pruitt's replacement at EPA is a formal Coal Industry Lobbyist. (Original Post)
spanone
Jul 2018
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Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)1. I don't know why people think they are going to get anything different.
spanone
(135,637 posts)2. we'll get pruitt without the scandals...
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)3. Precisely
He hasnt nominated or appointed anyone thus far that was competent or wasnt opposed to the mission of the department to which they were to direct, so why would things change now?
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)4. K&R
Of course! Bad for bad is the Trump way.