a former coal lobbyist in charge of environmental protection

Former coal lobbyist to take the lead Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Republican Andrew Wheeler, current number two of the agency, will ensure the interim after the resignation, Thursday, July 5, Scott Pruitt, mired in a series of scandals related to his lifestyle and its use of public funds.

His name is well known to Democrats, horrified when he was confirmed in April at the EPA, whose director, equivalent to a minister of the environment, is appointed by the US president and approved by the Congress. "He spent years undermining or putting pressure on environmental protections he could soon oversee" CNN was worried about New York Senator Chuck Schumer.

After the departure of Scott Pruitt, "We now have his deputy administrator, and it is unclear if that person is committed to protecting the environment. That's the real problem " Thursday, Maryland Senator Ben Cardin said on the US channel. It is unlikely that guidance will change much at EPA under the leadership of Andrew Wheeler, whose views on environmental regulations are just as conservative as his predecessor.

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Criticizing Trump in the Past

On the EPA website, the biography of Andrew Wheeler, born in Hamilton, Ohio, in his fifties, boasts a career "devoted to the advancement of sound environmental policies" . He had previously worked for the EPA under the presidency of George W. Bush.

More recently, he has been a lobbyist for many coal industry clients and a director of the company specializing in energy and energy. FaegreBD Consulting, where his best client was the mining company Murray Energy.

According to the Center for Responsive Policy, which studies the effects of money and lobbying on public policy, the mining company has paid at least $ 300,000 a year to Andrew Wheeler's company between 2009 and 2017.

The US president is full of praise for him. "He's been with me for a long time, it was Trump's support from the beginning […] He's going to do a fantastic job," he badured Thursday aboard Air Force One, en route to Montana

Andrew Wheeler, however, has already criticized the president in the past, reports Washington Post . In 2016, when he was still a lobbyist, he had written a message on Facebook – deleted since – in which he described Donald Trump, then a candidate for the White House, of "bully" who " has demonstrated through debates and interviews that he does not understand how the government works, " and questioned his personality. Asked in 2017 by the paper, Andrew Wheeler explained that he had relied on what he saw during the debates during the primaries, but after reviewing the policies of the president, he said he was "strongly agree" with him.

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