Virginia Senate panel votes down former Trump EPA chief Wheeler, fight not over for Youngkin Cabinet pick
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/592354-virginia-senate-panel-votes-to-pull-wheelers-name-from-nominee-list?utm_source=thehill&utm_medium=widgets&utm_campaign=es_recommended_content A key committee in Virginia’s Democratic-majority state Senate has removed former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Andrew Wheeler, GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s nominee for secretary of natural and historic resources, from a list of Cabinet nominees, signaling the legislature may reject a state Cabinet nominee for the first time in 16 years. The state Senate’s Committee […]
Virginia’s Gov. elect Youngkin Picks Trump EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler For Virginia’s Top Climate Role
https://dailycaller.com/2022/01/06/glenn-youngkin-andrew-wheeler-environmental-protection-agency-donald-trump/ THOMAS CATENACCIENERGY & ENVIRONMENT REPORTER January 06, 20222:20 PM ET FONT SIZE: Republican Virginia Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin chose former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler to lead his administration’s climate policy. Wheeler, who former President Donald Trump nominated to head the EPA in 2018, will be the incoming administration’s secretary of natural resources, the governor-elect’s […]
Trump’s EPA launches surprise attack on Biden’s climate rules – Rule ‘would block future limits on greenhouse gases from industrial sources’
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/12/trump-epa-biden-climate-rules-458280 By ALEX GUILLÉN In a surprise move, the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday will unveil a climate rule that will effectively prohibit the future regulation of greenhouse gases from any stationary industry other than power plants. The rule comes just eight days before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, who has pledged a multitrillion-dollar […]
Will Trump’s EPA do anything about CO2 endangerment finding? ‘I don’t think so. That’s a huge issue,’ says EPA chief Andrew Wheeler
An Interview With EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler By Gabriella Hoffman In this wide-ranging interview with @USEPAgov Administrator Andrew Wheeler, @GabriellaHoffman speaks with the 15th agency administrator about their 50th anniversary, the Trump administration’s legacy on environmental issues, what media/administration critics got wrong about their policies, and much more. Don’t miss it. Listen on District […]
EPA chief: ‘Trump was right to leave Paris Climate Accords. We have done more to reduce our GHG emissions over the past four years than our international competitors’
https://twitter.com/EPAAWheeler/status/1325819947474358272 https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/greenhouse-gas-emissions-continue-decline-american-economy-flourishes-under-trump-0 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Continue to Decline as the American Economy Flourishes Under the Trump Administration 11/09/2020 Contact Information: EPA Press Office ([email protected]) WASHINGTON (November 9, 2020) — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released 2019 greenhouse gas (GHG) data collected under the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP). These data show that between 2018 and 2019 […]
EPA Asks DOJ Whether Green Groups Should Register As Foreign Agents
https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/4rUNGyamP_cmvsqgsMwQo2_9zVgb65fOllfRPYejqGQa531hkeL-Y75Cv2Kokyw2lW4ke0H_givboErCH3Ox302-zlao3qNSSczUfu2uZiVQNV8gdG1CDLy9JnCVYL_NwxJZ94xYqYNWEU_wcVoisuOmtoHCRHRaZQNIiy0Oz4A EPA Asks DOJ Whether Green Groups Should Register As Foreign AgentsClimate Change Dispatch / 2d Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler said Monday he would ask the Justice Department to look into whether environmental advocacy groups receiving overseas funding should register as foreign agents. His letter on enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) came […]
EPA Asks DOJ Whether Green Groups Should Register As Foreign Agents
https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/4rUNGyamP_cmvsqgsMwQo2_9zVgb65fOllfRPYejqGQa531hkeL-Y75Cv2Kokyw2lW4ke0H_givboErCH3Ox302-zlao3qNSSczUfu2uZiVQNV8gdG1CDLy9JnCVYL_NwxJZ94xYqYNWEU_wcVoisuOmtoHCRHRaZQNIiy0Oz4A EPA Asks DOJ Whether Green Groups Should Register As Foreign AgentsClimate Change Dispatch / 2d Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler said Monday he would ask the Justice Department to look into whether environmental advocacy groups receiving overseas funding should register as foreign agents. His letter on enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) came […]
BILL NYE CONCERNED ABOUT NEW EPA CHIEF OF STAFF PICK, SAYS SHE HAS TWO YOUNG KIDS THAT WILL ‘INHERIT THIS EARTH’
https://www.newsweek.com/bill-nye-epa-chief-staff-two-young-kids-inherit-earth-1487742 BY ARISTOS GEORGIOU ON 2/18/20 AT 8:08 AM EST Bill Nye’s Beef With Climate Change Deniers U.S.EPAENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCYBILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUYBILL NYE Science communicator Bill Nye has cast doubt on the credentials of Mandy Gunasekara, a former top air policy official at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). According to a report in The Washington […]
Mandy Gunasekara pushed Trump to exit Paris climate pact & now she’s returning to EPA as chief of staff
http://co2coalition.org/2020/02/14/she-pushed-trump-to-exit-the-paris-climate-agreement-and-roll-back-environmental-rules-and-shes-returning-to-epa-as-chief-of-staff/ By Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis Mandy Gunasekara, who pressed for President Trump to exit the Paris climate agreement as the Environmental Protection Agency’s top air policy adviser, is poised to return to the agency as its next chief of staff, according to two individuals briefed on the matter. Gunasekara left the EPA a […]
TOTAL VICTORY: EPA science advisers trash EPA staff assessment of PM2.5 ‘science’
https://junkscience.com/2019/12/total-victory-epa-science-advisers-trash-epa-staff-assessment-of-pm2-5-science/ By Steve Milloy EPA’s science advisory panel for air quality, the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC), has now officially trashed all the scary claims the agency has been making for the past 25 years about PM2.5 in outdoor air. The letter was transmitted to Administrator Andrew Wheeler yesterday. The future significance is that […]