Wheeler Touts ‘Cost Effective’ EPA But Downplays Bite Of Rollbacks

Exiting Administrator Andrew Wheeler is touting his almost two-year tenure and broader Trump EPA accomplishments, including elimination of administrative backlogs and pursuit of “cost-effective” rules, while downplaying the deregulatory impact of regulatory rollbacks on climate and other issues that have sparked wide public outcry. In an interview with Inside EPA just days before his departure from the agency, Wheeler urged the incoming Biden administration to take a “hard look” before reversing Trump administration policies, reprising prior claims that critics...