Wheeler goes on offense against Senate critics of virus response

May 29, 2020
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler is publicly taking on two of his top Capitol Hill critics, charging that Sens. Tom Carper (D-DE) and Ed Markey (D-MA) are “politicizing” the agency’s response to the coronavirus pandemic by citing flawed research to falsely argue that the agency is hurting minority and low-income communities. In a May 28 interview with the Daily Caller , Wheeler accused Democrats of playing politics with EPA’s pandemic response. “Shame on Sen. Markey for politicizing a study...


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