WASHINGTON Andrew Wheeler, President Donald Trumps nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, told a Senate panel Wednesday that he does not believe climate change is the greatest crisis and vowed to continue the administrations agenda of rolling back environmental regulations.
Wheeler, a former coal industry lobbyist who replaced Scott Pruitt to become acting EPA chief last year, faced pointed questions from Democratic senators who sought to cast him as a lackey for the fossil fuel industry and polluters. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., who focused on…
EPA nominee plays down climate change
