In a move that was long expected, President Donald Trump formally nominated Andrew Wheeler to serve as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
The White House announced Wednesday the president has sent Wheeler’s nomination to the Senate.
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee — which must pass Wheeler before he can get a vote on the Senate floor — is scheduled to first consider his nomination on Jan. 16, according to the committee’s website.
“I am honored and grateful that President Trump has nominated me to lead the Environmental Protection Agency,” Wheeler, who has already served as acting EPA administrator for six months, stated Wednesday. “For me, there is no greater responsibility than protecting human health and the environment, and I look forward to carrying out this essential task on behalf of the American public.”
The promotion was widely anticipated after Trump, speaking at a Medal of Freedom ceremony in November, said he intended to nominate Wheeler to the top spot.
If his nomination is successful, Wheeler’s role in the agency wouldn’t be much different from what it is now. He was formerly the deputy administrator of the EPA and became acting administrator following Scott Pruitt’s resignation in July.
Pruitt, who served as Oklahoma attorney general before Trump tapped him to lead the EPA, resigned six months ago amid mounting ethics scandals.
Since taking the reins of the EPA, Wheeler has mostly carried on Pruitt’s legacy of deregulation and extensive rollbacks of generation industry rules.
Under his tutelage, the EPA has proposed freezing auto efficiency standards, replacing carbon emission limits on power plants with softer rules, and easing restrictions on wetlands and streams.
Such moves have earned Wheeler plaudits from industry officials but have also attracted sharp criticism in environmental circles.
“The only thing Wheeler is going to protect at the EPA is the profits of polluters,” Brett Hartl, a spokesman with the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group, said in a statement. “I’m sure corporate boardrooms will celebrate this nomination. But for anyone who drinks water, breathes air or cares about wildlife, this will be nothing but awful.”
Given the GOP enjoys a majority in the upper chamber of Congress, Wheeler’s confirmation is likely. However, Senate confirmation battles have become increasingly partisan in the modern era.
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And during the confirmation hearing, just how many ladies (or this time they might even try men,, the ladies didn’t do too well last time) will come forth with nasty accusations? People who voted for a democrat at the recent elections should take a long hard look at at those they elected – are these the type of people you’d take home to meet the family?
“Brett Hartl, a spokesman with the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group, said in a statement. “I’m sure corporate boardrooms will celebrate this nomination. But for anyone who drinks water, breathes air or cares about wildlife, this will be nothing but awful.””
“The Center for Biological Diversity, based in Tucson, Arizona, is a nonprofit membership organization with approximately 1.1 million members and online activists, known for its work protecting endangered species through legal action, (ACTIVIST) scientific petitions, creative (FAKE) media and (PAID) grassroots activism.”
“626 Groups Urge Congress to Phase Out Fossil Fuels, Build Green Economy”
“SAN FRANCISCO— American conservation groups and residents of Okinawa have filed the opening brief in an appeal of a court ruling allowing construction of a U.S. Marine Corps air base in the Japanese island’s coastal waters.”
BUT… FOR YEARS nothing!! Not even crickets from those same 626 Groups who care SO MUCH for anyone who drinks water, breathes air or cares about wildlife…. WHILE CHINA LITERALLY DESTROYED ISLANDS AND CORAL REEFS BUILDING ISLAND BASES IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA.
time for Trump to revise POLITICAL ACTIVIST abuse of 501(c)(3) regulations……….
https://www.newsweek.com/china-south-china-sea-islands-build-military-territory-expand-575161
The proof that global warming is a hoax is clear as the hand in front of your face. Remnants of ancient forests have been found in the debris of receding glaciers in Switzerland and British Columbia. Google this. It’s true. This is proof that temperatures were at least 3 degrees warmer when these forests were growing. The ice core data also shows us that carbon dioxide was below 300 PPM during these times. The only thing that can change the earth’s temperature that much is the sun. The earth’s orbit around the sun has a repeating cycle (known as the Milankovitch Cycle) which has a periodicity of roughly 100,000 years, which also happens to be the periodicity of currently glacial advances. The cycle is more complicated due to wobbles and sway of the earth’s orbit. Think of a top as it slows down.
Face it the Greens only want people in the EPA that are big time Deep Ecologists who are radicals who want to revert us all back to a miserble 3rd World way of living the Democrats surround us with just like under Clinton and Obama who are into this GAIA ideology and reject the idea of Private Property the late Peter Berley who once headed the National Audubon Society who tried to drops the groups SAVE THE BIRDS ideas and replace them with the usial Globalists wanks