Senate Confirms Former Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler To Lead EPA (cnn.com)

The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Andrew Wheeler as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, ratifying President Trump's choice of a former advocate for business interests to lead the agency. From a report: Wheeler, also a former Republican Senate aide on environmental issues, has been acting administrator since July, when former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned amid a host of ethics controversies. Since Wheeler began leading the agency, he has continued work on many of the same priorities as his predecessor, including looking to roll back Obama-era air and water pollution regulations. But Wheeler has brought a level of stability to the agency that didn't exist under Pruitt, keeping a relatively low profile while continuing to make progress towards meeting the Trump administration's policy goals for the agency. He has met often with industry representatives. Wheeler attended or held more than 50 meetings with representatives of companies or industry groups regulated by the EPA between April and August of 2018, a CNN review of his internal schedules found.

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Making America Great Again

[Macdude]

Andrew Wheeler is helping Make America Great Again by bringing back those glory days when rivers routinely caught fire.

Re:Coal and Cops....

[PopeRatzo]

Those meth jobs are filthy liberal Democrat jobs, without enough toil and supporting hedonistic lifestyles that go against God's teachings.

Most of the states with the most meth labs are Republican, and the state with the most meth labs is Vice-President Pence's very own Indiana.

https://www.realclearpolitics....

Re:Senate = non representative corrupt dictators

[edwdig]

I assume he's talking about the power grabs the state senates did in those two states. When the Republican governors lost their elections, the Republican state senates passed a bunch laws transferring a bunch of power from the governor to the senate. The outgoing governors were happy to sign the bills into law on their last days in office.

Re:Fuck coal

[ClickOnThis]

And fuck coal miners. Leave that poison in the ground.

Let me remind you Hillary Clinton said the same thing and she was left in the dust. No pun intended.

No, she did not say "the same thing."

She said that the coal industry was dying (true) and that she wanted to offer opportunities for coal workers to train and transfer to other industries. That does not sound like "fucking" coal miners.