The Senate on Thursday confirmed Andrew Wheeler to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, handing the reins of the agency responsible for ensuring clean air and safe drinking water to a former coal industry lobbyist.
Wheeler assumed control of the agency on an interim basis in July 2018 after President Trump chose him to replace former Administrator Scott Pruitt, who resigned under a cloud of federal investigations. Scrutiny of Pruitt’s lavish spending of taxpayer money and the use of his position to enrich his family turned him into a political liability. When the spotlight became too intense, it fell to his deputy to continue Trump’s agenda of rolling back Obama administration environmental regulations.
Most Republicans continue to support these policies, but the aggressive anti-regulation push has cost Wheeler the backing of some of the more moderate senators who voted a year ago to confirm him as deputy administrator.“I believe that Mr. Wheeler, unlike Scott Pruitt, understands the mission of the EPA and acts in accordance with ethical standards,” Collins wrote on Twitter.
A longtime Washington insider, Wheeler has often been viewed as a more disciplined version of his former boss. Pruitt’s rush to undo long-standing rules and his lack of familiarity with the complicated process of rewriting regulations led to a raft of lawsuits, many of which succeeded in delaying or stopping his initiatives.
Because who needs clean air and water? 🤷🏾♀️ Not the actual living organisms in the United States, apparently. Ahhh...the return to greatness indeed.
Very similar to when Obama put the a board member from Monsanto as the head of the FDA
the robber has been given the keys to the bank
Life is good!
Is this another lawyer looking for a job: you know, that group that likes the big bucks and creates problems like we now deal with in government.
Classy
sherrilee7 Another job for the boys.
The SenateGOP is really out to destroy this Country as fast as they can.....👎🔥💩🤢💀
No one has saved a single piece of our environment since trump took office.
Ridiculous!
Bradley Whitford can play him in the movie with lots o' m-up!
Gardening_Angel FFS. Are they taking the piss?
Gardening_Angel It could not be any clearer what the Rethug party is all about now
this can't be real.
GOP allow evil to lead them. Bush Empire& Cheney. Then Trump& his family& criminal friends. GOP bow down & worship to a satan. While DEMs would question, act, regulate whom they work with in public office.
what could go wrong?
Your Old Handbook Guidelines,,,,is Lame !
More illegitimate appointments by TraitorScum WH puppet.
It's very hard to find someone competent enough to be in charge of widgets if that person doesn't know what a widget is. True, one can hire a former restaurant manager to work in management in a big company making airplanes. Possible, but it's very hard to find a good one.
How do Republicans support this shit?
Thank you!! Not some fanatical whackjob
We have gone so far down the rabbit hole, I fear we'll never find our way up again.
Sickening.
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