<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">His replacement (from the Washington Post):</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div>

<div class="gmail-moat-trackable gmail-pb-f-theme-normal gmail-pb-f-dehydrate-false gmail-pb-f-async-false gmail-full gmail-pb-feature gmail-pb-layout-item gmail-pb-f-article-article-topper" id="gmail-fVxl3u1tpWxWWq" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;float:left;width:1430px"><div class="gmail-border-bottom-off gmail-border-bottom-100-pct" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><div id="gmail-article-topper" class="gmail-article-topper" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><div id="gmail-topper-headline-wrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;display:flex"><div class="gmail-topper-headline" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 8px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:56px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-family:PostoniWide,"Bodoni 72","Bodoni MT",Didot,"Didot LT STD","Hoefler Text",Garamond,Georgia,serif;word-spacing:-0.02em;line-height:1.1em;color:rgb(42,42,42);display:inline-block">Scott Pruitt’s likely successor has long lobbying history on issues before the EPA</h1></div><span id="gmail-slug_tiffany_tile" class="gmail-hidden-xs gmail-right" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;margin:auto;float:right"></span></div><div class="gmail-clear" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;clear:both"></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-pb-container" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;width:1430px;margin:0px auto;max-width:1440px;clear:both"></div><div class="gmail-moat-trackable gmail-pb-f-theme-normal gmail-pb-f-dehydrate-false gmail-pb-f-async-false gmail-full gmail-pb-feature gmail-pb-layout-item gmail-pb-f-article-article-deck" id="gmail-fRN7Vs1tpWxWWq" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;float:left;width:960px;padding:0px"><div id="gmail-article-deck" class="gmail-article-deck" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><div class="gmail-clear" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;clear:both"></div></div></div><div class="gmail-moat-trackable gmail-pb-f-theme-normal gmail-pb-f-dehydrate-false gmail-pb-f-async-false gmail-full gmail-pb-feature gmail-pb-layout-item gmail-pb-f-article-article-body" id="gmail-f09QUwYtpWxWWq" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;float:left;width:960px"><div id="gmail-pb-article-body-author-modals" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"></div><div id="gmail-article-body" class="gmail-article-body gmail-content-format-ans" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><div class="gmail-inline-content gmail-inline-photo gmail-inline-photo-normal gmail-horizontal-photo" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px 0px 12px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><a name="EHW4O4EASQI6RJR7PNOSVOT2YU" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(25,85,165)"></a><br></div><div class="gmail-pb-sig-line gmail-hasnt-headshot gmail-has-0-headshots gmail-hasnt-bio gmail-is-not-column" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 25px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.1em;display:flex"><span class="gmail-pb-byline" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0.5em 0px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-weight:bold"><span class="gmail-byline-role" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-transform:capitalize">By<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/steven-mufson/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(25,85,165)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;white-space:nowrap">Steven Mufson</span></a></span><span class="gmail-pb-timestamp" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0.5em 0px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(170,170,170);white-space:nowrap;line-height:1.3em">July 5 at 4:45 PM</span><span class="gmail-pb-tool email" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0.5em 0px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(170,170,170);line-height:1.3em;white-space:nowrap"><a href="mailto:steven.mufson@washpost.com?subject=Reader%20feedback%20for%20%27Scott%20Pruitt%E2%80%99s%20likely%20successor%20has%20long%20lobbying%20history%20on%20issues%20before%20the%20EPA%27" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(25,85,165)"><span class="gmail-fa gmail-fa-envelope" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;display:inline-block;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1;font-family:FontAwesome"></span><span class="envelope-label" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0px 6px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Email the author</span></a></span><span class="gmail-pb-bolt" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"></span></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">Andrew Wheeler, until now the low-profile deputy administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency, became the likely successor to the scandal-plagued Scott Pruitt Thursday and an appealing alternative for those hoping to continue to roll back key EPA policies.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">Wheeler spent a decade lobbying for just the sort of companies the agency regulates, and before that he worked for Sen. James M. Inhofe (D-Okla.), who rejects climate change. Drawing on three decades in Washington, Wheeler will likely pick up where the departing Pruitt left off — only without the controversy that constantly plagued him.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">Even if Wheeler ends up recusing himself from a range of EPA decisions, his record as a lobbyist suggests his views might not differ much from those of Trump. At the firm Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting, Wheeler represented energy companies, mining companies and a mixture of others with issues ranging from food to salvaging automobiles. Among his professional activities, he listed his post as vice president of the Washington Coal Club.</p><span id="gmail-slug_inline_bb" class="gmail-wp-inline-bb gmail-pb-centered-bb" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;margin:15px auto"></span><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">“I have no doubt that Andy will continue on with our great and lasting EPA agenda,” Trump tweeted as he announced that he had accepted Pruitt’s resignation. “We have made tremendous progress and the future of the EPA is very bright!”</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">The Senate<span> </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/07/21/trump-to-tap-longtime-coal-lobbyist-for-epas-number-two-spot/?utm_term=.10dadcdfa9de" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:19.9px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(44,108,180);border-bottom:1px solid rgb(213,213,213)">confirme</a>d Wheeler for the deputy slot in April by a 53-to-45 vote.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">“There is every reason to expect that he will pursue just as vigorously all the regulatory policies and initiatives in progress that were initiated by Pruitt,” said Joseph Goffman, executive director of Harvard Law School’s environmental law program.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">Environmental groups vowed to fight Wheeler as much as they have Pruitt.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">“Andrew Wheeler is equally unqualified to serve as the nation’s chief environmental steward,” Ana Unruh Cohen, managing director for government affairs at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a statement. “This veteran coal lobbyist has shown only disdain for the EPA’s vital mission to protect Americans’ health and our environment.”</p><span id="gmail-slug_inline_bb_2" class="gmail-wp-inline-bb gmail-pb-centered-bb" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;margin:15px auto"></span><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">While a lobbyist, Wheeler’s best-paying client was the coal mining firm Murray Energy, which paid the firm $300,000 or more annually from 2009 through 2017, according to<span> </span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Y0000039030L&year=2017" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:19.9px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(44,108,180);border-bottom:1px solid rgb(213,213,213)">records from the Center for Responsive Politics</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">Wheeler arranged and attended a March 28, 2017, meeting between Robert E. Murray, the company’s chief executive, and Energy Secretary Rick Perry. Murray, who had contributed heavily to the Trump campaign, laid out a four-page plan for rolling back regulations and protecting coal plants in danger of closing because of competition from other fuel supplies.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">The Trump administration has already taken steps to address most of the issues on Murray’s list. The president recently ordered the Energy Department invoke Cold War era energy emergency powers to take actions that would prevent the closure of coal and nuclear power plants for at least two years, which is what Murray has been seeking.</p><span id="gmail-slug_inline_bb_3" class="gmail-wp-inline-bb gmail-pb-centered-bb" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;margin:15px auto"></span><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">In addition to his time with Inhofe, Wheeler served as staff director and chief counsel to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. There he worked to defeat climate-related legislation that came before lawmakers.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">He supported efforts to exempt industrial plants from pollution controls in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and limit their liability for harm caused by the release of toxic chemicals. He favored the elimination of the New Source Review permitting process that is an important part of environmental legislation.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">As a lobbyist, Wheeler commented on a 2010 National Journal blog post that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “has functioned more as a political body than a scientific body” and that the group should revisit its 2009 finding that carbon-dioxide emissions posed a threat to public health.</p><span id="gmail-slug_inline_bb_4" class="gmail-wp-inline-bb gmail-pb-centered-bb" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;margin:15px auto"></span><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">He also suggested that lawmakers back a proposal by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) to overturn the<span> </span><a href="https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/epa-endangerment-finding-fs.pdf" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:19.9px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(44,108,180);border-bottom:1px solid rgb(213,213,213)">endangerment finding</a>. In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled that the Clean Air Act required EPA to come up with a plan to curb emissions of greenhouse gases. Wheeler said overturning the court decision would “allow legislators to craft sensible energy policy that can promote energy independence without killing our domestic production of fossil fuels.”</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">“Wheeler is viewed generally as a sort of standard-issue member of the Washington D.C. policy and lobbying ecosystem,” said Goffman, a Democrat who worked at EPA and opposite Wheeler on the Senate energy committee.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">“If the concern, though, is policy and public health protection and the way EPA functions, then I think Andy Wheeler can be counted on, unfortunately, to carry out exactly the same policies and reflect exactly the same ideology as Pruitt,” Goffman continued. “He is a member of the very same coalition Pruitt has been representing.”</p><span id="gmail-slug_inline_bb_5" class="gmail-wp-inline-bb gmail-pb-centered-bb" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;margin:15px auto"></span><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">Wheeler also represented Energy Fuels Resources, a uranium mining firm that could benefit from Trump’s December announcement to halve the size of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Wheeler was lobbying the administration about the issue nearly nine months before the announcement.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">In May 2017, Energy Fuels wrote a letter asking the administration to change the monument’s boundaries because of “many other known uranium and vanadium deposits” that “could provide valuable energy and mineral resources in the future.”</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">Another former Wheeler client, the Minneapolis-based utility Xcel, has fought an EPA regulation that would require coal plants built between 1962 and 1977 to upgrade their facilities with scrubbers to meet sulfur dioxide emissions standards. Installing scrubbers could be<span> </span><a href="http://www.amarillo.com/business/2017-01-20/new-epa-proposal-could-cost-xcel-hundreds-millions-dollars" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:19.9px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(44,108,180);border-bottom:1px solid rgb(213,213,213)">costly for Xcel</a>. One of its coal units in Amarillo, Tex., dates back to 1976.</p><span id="gmail-slug_inline_bb_6" class="gmail-wp-inline-bb gmail-pb-centered-bb" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;margin:15px auto"></span><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">The<span> </span><a href="http://www.lnglimited.com.au/irm/content/bear-head-lng.aspx" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:19.9px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(44,108,180);border-bottom:1px solid rgb(213,213,213)">Bear Head LNG<span> </span></a>Corp. also paid Wheeler’s firm at least $10,000 last year. The company, a subsidiary of LNGL, wants to export liquefied natural gas from Nova Scotia, and it needed Energy Department approval to export natural gas produced in the United States.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">In 2010, a group called the Parent South Coast Air Quality Management District paid Wheeler’s firm $250,000 to help in its battle against an EPA regulation that would limit ozone emissions. Since ozone is a pollutant that affects people in immediate areas, the regulation would force companies within a certain zone to cut emissions.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">Although the group hadn’t engaged Wheeler in recent years, it has continued fighting the EPA in court. The group lost in a Feb. 16<span> </span><a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/cadc/15-1115/15-1115-2018-02-16.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:19.9px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(44,108,180);border-bottom:1px solid rgb(213,213,213)">decision written by Judge David B. Sentelle<span> </span></a>of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.</p><span id="gmail-slug_inline_bb_7" class="gmail-wp-inline-bb gmail-pb-centered-bb" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;margin:15px auto"></span><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">Another client, Darling Ingredients, paid Wheeler’s firm $420,000 over the past three years. The company<span> </span><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/darling-ingredients-dar-q1-2018-142455715.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:19.9px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(44,108,180);border-bottom:1px solid rgb(213,213,213)">has a stake in reforms of the complicated Renewable Fuel Standard<span> </span></a>and the tax credit for companies that blend ethanol with gasoline.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">The Irving, Tex.-based company<span> </span><a href="https://www.epa.gov/ia/darling-ingredients-inc-dba-dar-pro-sioux-city-iowa-clean-water-act-public-notice" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:19.9px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(44,108,180);border-bottom:1px solid rgb(213,213,213)">also agreed in 2016 to settle<span> </span></a>allegations of Clean Water Act violations at four facilities used to store petroleum fuels, vegetable oils and animal fats for just $99,000. In 2014, the company paid a<span> </span><a href="https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/darling-ingredients" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:19.9px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(44,108,180);border-bottom:1px solid rgb(213,213,213)">$1.1 million penalty<span> </span></a>to EPA.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">Wheeler also represented Whirlpool, Sargento Foods, Underwriters Laboratories, the Nuclear Energy Institute, the Coalition for Domestic Medical Isotope Supply and Insurance Auto Auctions, which deals in large numbers of salvaged cars.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">But Murray Energy was his steadiest client. In 2014, Murray joined the fight against the Obama administration’s landmark rule limiting mercury and other toxic emissions from coal- and oil-fired power plants.</p><span id="gmail-slug_inline_bb_8" class="gmail-wp-inline-bb gmail-pb-centered-bb" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;margin:15px auto"></span><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">In an amicus brief in support of states and industry groups, the firm told the Supreme Court that the rule undermined state and local efforts to provide affordable and reliable electricity. Two years later, it sued to block EPA from regulating mercury from power plants under the Clean Air Act.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">Murray, who said he has not had any contact with Wheeler since he became deputy administrator, said in an email that “Scott Pruitt was an exceptional Administrator of the U.S. EPA in overturning the illegal actions of the Obama Administration. It is a tragedy for America to lose such a qualified Administrator.”</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">Many Republicans will find that track record makes Wheeler the sort of EPA leader they want.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">“Andrew Wheeler is the perfect choice to serve as Acting Administrator,” Inhofe said in a statement Thursday. “Andrew worked for me for 14 years, has an impeccable reputation and has the experience to be a strong leader at the EPA. I have no doubt and complete confidence he will continue the important deregulatory work that Scott Pruitt started while being a good steward of the environment.”</p></div></div>

<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 2:29 PM ï»¿Kenneth Marcy <<a href="mailto:kmmos1@frontier.com">kmmos1@frontier.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr" id="m_-1774468034175788842yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530825903119_3311">President Trump has tweeted that he accepted Scott Pruitt's resignation as Cabinet Secretary of the EPA.</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-1774468034175788842yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530825903119_3312"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-1774468034175788842yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530825903119_3313">Twitter, CNN, and other media will have details.</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-1774468034175788842yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530825903119_3314"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-1774468034175788842yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530825903119_3315">Ken<br></div></div></div>=======================================================<br>
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