Facing investigation from Dems, top EPA official resigns

[babylonsister]

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/facing-investigation-dems-top-epa-official-resigns


Facing investigation from Dems, top EPA official resigns
06/26/19 04:11 PM—Updated 06/26/19 04:15 PM
By Steve Benen


Exactly two years ago this week, lobbyist Bill Wehrum convened a meeting with his clients in the power-plant industry. On the agenda was a discussion on how best to go after the Obama administration’s safeguards on polluters.

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A top Environment Protection Agency official who helped lead the Trump administration’s rollback of Obama-era restrictions of carbon emissions is resigning amid a congressional probe into whether he improperly aided former industry clients.

EPA Assistant Administrator Bill Wehrum is expected to depart at the end of June. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced Wehrum’s resignation on Wednesday.

Ethics questions have dogged Wehrum since his 2017 nomination by President Donald Trump. He long represented the fossil fuels and chemical industries as a Washington lawyer. Narrowly confirmed by the Senate, Wehrum has helped lead EPA’s rollbacks of clean air and carbon emissions regulations opposed by his former private-sector clients.

As the Associated Press reported, the Democratic-led House Energy and Commerce Committee started investigating Wehrum’s work in April. Two months later, he decided to exit stage right.

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Wehrum’s resignation may not be the highest-profile example of elections having consequences, but it’s a good one all the same.

[Leghorn21]

1. Damn, that's 3 in two days - yesterday that immigration guy John Sanders and the guy who carries a

whip to work and now this loser.

Who's next, who's next

[babylonsister]

2. Just like rats fleeing a sinking ship. nt