Trump Agenda Gives Wheeler Opportunity To Reverse Bush EPA's Losses

August 16, 2018
Industry attorneys say acting EPA chief Andrew Wheeler's experience as a former agency career official, and later legislative staff, gives him the opportunity to learn from court defeats that blocked much of President George W. Bush's EPA deregulatory agenda, because he might be able to craft rules that address the key findings of the rulings. Wheeler is widely expected to take a more cautious approach to the Trump administration's environmental agenda compared with his former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, but...


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