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Andrew Wheeler

Trump’s Former Head of the EPA Has Been a Quiet Contributor to Virginia’s Exit From RGGI

Gov. Glenn Youngkin caused an uproar picking Andrew Wheeler as his natural resources secretary. Senate Democrats blocked Wheeler’s nomination, but now he oversees regulatory efforts and remains involved in environmental policy.

By Jake Bolster

 Andrew Wheeler arrives for a House Appropriations Committee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington in March 2020, when he served as President Donald Trump's administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Wheeler currently is head of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's newly created Office of Regulatory Management. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images.
The Mount Storm coal fired power station sits on a man-made lake near Mount Storm, West Virginia. Credit: Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Court Strikes Down Trump Rollback of Climate Regulations for Coal-Fired Power Plants

By Georgina Gustin

With Only a Week Left in Trump’s Presidency, a Last-Ditch Effort to Block Climate Action and Deny the Science

By Marianne Lavelle
Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, listens during a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing, May 20, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Credit: Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images

Wheeler Announces a New ‘Transparency’ Rule That His Critics Say Is Dangerous to Public Health

By Marianne Lavelle
Michael Cox, a former EPA climate expert for the Pacific Northwest, looks into the Wyckoff/Eagle Harbor Superfund site on Bainbridge Island, Washington on Oct. 6, 2020. Credit: Karen Ducey

Trump's EPA Claimed 'Success' in Superfund Cleanups—But Climate Change Dangers Went Unaddressed

By DAVID HASEMYER, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS, AND LISE OLSEN, TEXAS OBSERVER
Airplanes. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Draft Airline Emission Rules are the Latest Trump Administration Effort to Change its Climate Record

By Kristoffer Tigue, Marianne Lavelle
Andrew Wheeler. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Wheeler in Wisconsin: Putting a Green Veneer on the Actions of Trump’s EPA

By Marianne Lavelle
Andrew Wheeler. Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Pool via Getty Images

Trump’s New Clean Water Act Rules Could Affect Embattled Natural Gas Projects on Both Coasts

By Kristoffer Tigue
Andrew Wheeler, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, arrives for a House Appropriations Committee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on March 4, 2020.

EPA’s ‘Secret Science’ Rule Meets with an Outpouring of Protest on Last Day for Public Comment

By Marianne Lavelle
Decades-long studies on the impact of air pollution underpin U.S. regulations. Credit: David L. Ryan/Boston Globe via Getty Images

How Trump’s ‘Secret Science’ Rule Would Put Patients’ Privacy at Risk

By Neela Banerjee
The Gowanus Canal, once a bustling transportation and shipping route in Brooklyn, New York, was declared a Superfund cleanup site in 2010. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Climate Change Threatens 60% of Toxic Superfund Sites, GAO Finds

By Phil McKenna
Bob Murray, the founder of Murray Energy, which filed for bankruptcy on Oct. 29, 2019. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Coal Giant Murray Energy Files for Bankruptcy Despite Trump’s Support

By Dan Gearino
A Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment oil and gas inspector discusses inspection practices in April 2019. Credit: Joe Amon/MediaNews Group/Denver Post via Getty Images.

Trump EPA Tries Again to Roll Back Methane Rules for Oil and Gas Industry

By Marianne Lavelle
A pipeline being built to pass under the Hudson River. Credit: Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty

EPA Proposes Clean Water Act Rules Change to Fast-Track Pipelines

By Phil McKenna
President Donald Trump with EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Trump’s EPA Skipped Ethics Reviews for Several New Advisers, GAO Finds

By Marianne Lavelle
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

EPA Science Advisers Push Back on Wheeler, Say He's Minimizing Their Role

By Marianne Lavelle
President-elect Donald Trump and President Barack Obama in 2016. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

What's Keeping Trump from Ratifying a Climate Treaty Even Republicans Support?

By Phil McKenna
"I don't believe it," President Donald Trump told reporters on Nov. 26 when asked about the National Climate Assessment's finding that global warming is causing ongoing and lasting economic damage. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Unable to Bury Climate Report, Trump & Deniers Launch Assault on the Science

By Marianne Lavelle
Andrew Wheeler, acting head of the EPA and a former coal lobbyist, will decide on a proposed rule that could block EPA's use of studies on health and pollution. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Health and Science Leaders Lay Out Evidence Against EPA's 'Secret Science' Rule

By Marianne Lavelle

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