where is that and what do we know about mr pruitt right so mr andrew wheeler. trump installed him as the number two at e.p.a. back in two thousand and seventeen so he was the deputy administrator and after scott pruitt was forced to resign in july of two thousand eight hundred to scrapes andrew weil or ascended to become the acting administrator and just last week. the president trump nominated wheeler to be. you know to be to formally be the full time administrator and so andrew wheeler before he became deputy administrator he was a lobbyist and we have been monitoring mr wheeler's activities for quite some time there are documents showing that he was the one that was being paid by murray energy who is c.e.o. is bob murray one of the largest private coal companies in the country that has had an outsized influence over trump and ministration policy this is the company that was pushing to rewrite america's energy markets in order to favor an economic coal fired power plants this key meeting that happened in march two thousand and seven two. team where bob murray

mr. pruitt's ouster, the trump administration nominated king coal's favorite son andrew wheeler to head the e.p.a. mr. wheeler is a former coal industry lobbyist and has down played the -- downplayed the recent science on the devastating impacts to come from climate change. after these reports came out, he said, quote, i have some questions about the assumptions. these are assumptions vetted by 300 leading scientists in the united states and across the planet. the only question, i believe, is why someone like andrew wheeler is put in charge at the e.p.a. a coal lobbyist is now the head of the e.p.a. e.p.a. just turns into every polluter's ally. that's the net result of what donald trump has done at that agency. the trump administration is also moving to freeze fuel economy standards rather than pushing for the historic and technically achievable goal of 54.5 miles per gallon by the year 2025. now, i am the author of the 2007 law that required the first fuel economy increase in 32 years, and increasing our fuel economy standards to 54.5 miles per gallon is the single largest action that any

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