Scott Pruitt’s deputy, Andrew Wheeler, will take over for the embattled former head of the Environmental Protection Agency — and is expected to pick up where Pruitt left off in the fight against regulations designed to protect Americans’ health.
Wheeler, 53, shares Pruitt’s drive to implement a deregulatory agenda.
Unlike Pruitt, however, the former coal lobbyist is known among colleagues as a spotlight-averse politician who could be more adept than his predecessor at rolling back regulations governing clean air and water, the New York Times reported.
TVNL Comment: How in Hell can this agency pretend to work for Environmental Protection? It must be labeled the Environmental Destruction Agency. Wake up, America.
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