Wheeler Touts EPA Metrics In Rebuttal To Criticism Over Lack Of Action

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler during Sept. 21 remarks at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) recited a lengthy list of what he said were the Trump administration’s significant environmental achievements, charging the news media with “underreporting” good news from the administration and faulting agency critics with discounting the results. “It is incontrovertible that today the environment is in better shape under President Trump than we found it,” Wheeler said at the conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. Later in his remarks...