Wheeler Pledge To Block California Highway Funds Draws State Concern

State officials are expressing surprise at EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s unprecedented threat to withhold California’s highway funds and concern that the agency may try to apply similar approaches to numerous other states with air quality problems. “We have never heard of anyone getting a letter like that before, certainty not from an administrator,” Miles Keogh, director of the National Association of Clean Air Agencies, told Inside EPA Sept. 24. On Capitol Hill, senators expressed some bipartisan skepticism at EPA’s...