I understand Governor-elect intends to appoint former coal lobbyist and Trump EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to serve as Virginia's next Secretary of Natural Resources.
Wheeler is one of the worst people the Governor-elect could have chosen for this job.
Wheeler is one of the worst people the Governor-elect could have chosen for this job.
Andrew Wheeler is not who you get to show you are going to govern in a pragmatic way based on the common good and bipartisan consensus.
He's an anti-environment ideologue.
He's an anti-environment ideologue.
Wheeler implemented an EPA dirty air rule his own agency said would cause *1,400 deaths* and breathing problems in thousands of people, many of them children.
Confronted with the projected toll, he ordered the agency to change how it did the math to produce a lower number.
Confronted with the projected toll, he ordered the agency to change how it did the math to produce a lower number.
In 2020 a federal court ordered the EPA, then led by Andrew Wheeler, to issue safety rules on a toxic chemical linked to brain damage in children. Wheeler's EPA simply refused, in defiance of the court order. nytimes.com/2020/06/18/cli…
On Jan. 6 the country watched aghast as Donald Trump incited the violent attack on the US Capitol. In the days that followed, many senior Administration officials publicly condemned what Trump did, and Cabinet members resigned in protest.
Not Andrew Wheeler – he stood by Trump.
Not Andrew Wheeler – he stood by Trump.
There are others with defensible records on environmental protection who would not compromise our natural resources or the moral and ethical standards our Commonwealth expects and deserves.
Virginia can do better than this.
Virginia can do better than this.
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