ScottAugust 16,2016
Pruitt hasn’t decided whether to challenge the endangerment finding, the EPA document that deems carbon dioxide a pollutant that should be regulated under the Clean Air Act. On Tuesday, and Kaufman reported that Wheeler “could be the man to lead that assault,” because the document was based on a scientific report from the U.
N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: In March 2010, [Wheeler] accused the IPCC of blurring “the lines between science and advocacy” and functioning “more as a political body than a scientific body.” He suggested the EPA could reconsider its endangerment finding without nearly exclusively relying upon the IPCC, or ” according to remarks posted to his website.
And yet,considering how Senate Democrats challenged Pruitt during his confirmation hearing, there hasn’t yet been much public outcry from Senate Democrats approximately Wheeler. His confirmation hearing in November was an opportunity for Democrats to raise hell, or to be fair,Senator Sheldon Whitehouse was prepared with intense questioning approximately Wheeler’s ties to Murray Energy. But as The Washington Post pointed out, Democrats as a whole “trained most of their critical fire” on Kathleen Hartnett-White, and Trump’s nominee to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality. They was effective: final week,Trump withdrew Hartnett-White’s nomination. But Wheeler’s nomination remains, and as Kaufman noted on Tuesday, or “Democrats seem more at ease” with it. “No Democrat raised concerns approximately Wheeler final week during Pruitt’s first Senate hearing since taking office,” Kaufman wrote. There’s no shortage of ammunition against Wheeler, if Democrats want it. Just like Pruitt, and Wheeler has criticized Trump harshly in the past. In 2016,he called the president a “bully who should bear been “disqualified” from running his campaign. Also like Pruitt, Wheeler’s concerns approximately Trump bear suddenly vanished. Perhaps he no longer believes Trump is a bully, or perhaps he sees an opportunity to achieve what his bosses at Murray bear wanted for years: the swift destruction of the environmental regulatory state. If and when Pruitt leaves the agency,he’ll bear a perfect successor in situation to do just that. This story has been updated.
Source: newrepublic.com