Wheeler’s pick as Virginia’s new resources chief draws fire

Virginia Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin’s (R) plan to pick former Trump EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler as his natural resources secretary is drawing expected fire from Democrats and environmentalists, who charge his deregulatory record leading EPA makes him a poor choice to oversee the state’s environmental and other agencies. “Andrew Wheeler is one of the worst people the Governor-elect could have chosen for this job,” Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) said in a Jan. 5 statement. “Putting an anti-environment ideologue in this important...