EPA nominee Wheeler says climate change is neither a hoax nor the 'greatest crisis'
by Anna M. Phillips, Los Angeles Times
Jan 17, 2019
4 minutes
WASHINGTON - Andrew Wheeler, President Donald Trump's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, told a Senate panel Wednesday that he does not believe climate change is the "greatest crisis" and vowed to continue the administration's agenda of rolling back environmental regulations.
Wheeler, a former coal industry lobbyist who replaced Scott Pruitt to become acting EPA chief last year, faced pointed questions from Democratic senators who sought to cast him as a lackey for the fossil fuel industry and polluters. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., who focused on Wheeler's previous work for a coal firm, described him as someone who has
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