Capito pushes for nominee to head EPA air office

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), is questioning why the Biden administration has yet to nominate a permanent head of EPA’s air office as part of a broader concern with the administration’s failure to provide answers on climate policy. At an Oct. 27 hearing to consider the nomination of EPA research chief Chris Frey, Capito reiterated her long-running concern with the administration’s failure to detail how it plans to achieve...