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    Get To Know Andrew Wheeler, Ex-Coal Lobbyist With Inside Track To Lead EPA

    The agency's next acting chief has drawn praise as a capable administrator. But critics still say the transition from Scott Pruitt is a bit like "going from a train wreck to a house on fire."
    by Rebecca Hersher Jul 06, 2018 3 minutes
    Andrew Wheeler, the Environmental Protection Agency's deputy and soon-to-be acting administrator, poses for a photograph released Thursday.

    After months spent staggering beneath the weight of roughly a dozen official ethics probes, mounting bipartisan criticism and one used mattress, Scott Pruitt decided to lay down his mantle as chief of the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday. But his leadership role didn't stay vacant long.

    In the very same pair of tweets announcing Pruitt's departure, President Trump named the man who would be taking his place — for now, at least: Andrew Wheeler, the longtime Washington insider confirmed by the Senate as Pruitt's deputy in April.

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