Wednesday, June 26, 2019

There goes another one

Is somebody keeping count of how many Trump admin appointees step down over ethics concerns?
Bill Wehrum, the head of EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, will leave the agency by the end of June.

The announcement comes a few months after lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce Committee launched an investigation into whether Wehrum and his deputy improperly aided former energy industry clients after joining the EPA.

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The lawmakers wrote an April later to Wehrum’s former employer saying they were “deeply troubled by several reports of unethical behavior by EPA officials, particularly in the Office of Air and Radiation.”

“We are concerned that two former employees of your firm — William Wehrum and David Harlow — may have violated federal ethics rules by helping reverse EPA’s position in ongoing litigation,” Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr. (N.J.) wrote in a letter to Hunton that was also signed by Reps. Paul Tonko (N.Y.) and Diana DeGette (Colo.).

The agency under President Trump has rolled back a number of regulations that had long been targets of the coal industry and coal-reliant utilities.

  The Hill
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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