New air office deputy draws mixed reactions

Anne Idsal, the Region 6 EPA administrator recently tapped as the air office’s principal deputy, is drawing mixed albeit expected reactions, with environmentalists warning that she will doggedly push the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda while industry officials praise her as someone who can “get it done.” Wheeler announced March 27 that he was naming Idsal principal deputy assistant administrator in the Office of Air and Radiation (OAR), replacing Mandy Gunasekara, who left recently left the agency. Idsal began her new...