JAN 6, 3:30 PM
Youngkin Picks Trump EPA Boss Andrew Wheeler For Virginia Secretary of Natural Resources
Jacob Fenston
https://twitter.com/JacobFenston
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State Sen. Scott Surovell (D) said he was baffled by the choice of Wheeler. “Youngkin campaigned as a sort of a consensus-building-friendly moderate, and he tried to downplay anything related to Donald Trump. Then to pick one of the people in the Trump administration that’s most deeply identified with Trump and Trump’s policies and Trump’s hostility towards environmental protection — it was just really kind of dumbfounding to me.”
Surovell noted that Wheeler may face a tough confirmation in the General Assembly, where Democrats still control the senate.
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Since departing the EPA, Wheeler, a Fairfax County resident, has been busy
as a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation,
writing opinion pieces for the Wall Street Journal, and
testifying against plastic bag fees.
Youngkin also announced his pick for director of environmental quality, engineer and wetland scientist Mike Rolband. Rolband, who founded the consulting firm Wetland Studies and Solutions, Inc. (WSSI), did not spark the same sort of outcry as Wheeler.
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