Acting Epa News Today

This is a leftist attack on very qualified people coming into this administration and serving this country. >> ambassador eisen, i mean theres nothing prohibiting this from happening. theres no law or guideline that says a former lobbyist cant serve as an acting secretary, right? >> well, anderson, i think there is. no wonder jim schultz abandoned the trump administration. he had to get out because of cases like the case of mr. wheeler, the acting epa head. he worked on the kolash rules and hes ...

There focusing on that funding crisis and he has more than the funding crisis to deal with. members of his cabinet have been leaving left and right and just within the past month, the white house has announced the resignation of naikki haley, jon kelly and defense secretary james mattis. we have chris lu back with us, republican strategist rick tyler and jay newton small. this list of acting staff, we have acting chaff chaff, acting attorney general, acting epa administrat administrator, this is...

An acting title, at some point well have an active interior secretary, we have an acting epa director. there are no deputies at the department of homeland security, at hud or the va. this is an incredibly vulnerable time for this administration to have all these positions unfilled or staffed by people with acting titles, alex. >> it is quite extraordinary. i hadnt thought about it in that perspective, but i agree 100%. lets also talk about the latest offer from the white house to reopen the now ...

Grouted many, many pipes that would be -- allow any chance of risk from the basins. >> reporter: you dont know where all of these pipes are and we dont know what is risky and what is not risky. >> we can chase pipes all day long but the ultimate way of making sure we have safe closure is to remove the water and close these basins in a way that is federally approved by the epa and what we are working to do here. >> reporter: in 2015 the epa did finally take action and required straightforward mea...

Making sure that we have safe closure is to remove the water and close these basins in a way thats federally approved by the epa and thats what were working to do. >> reporter: in 2015, the epa did finally take action and began requiring straight forward measures. test the ground water. close contaminating coal ash ponds. place future waste in basins that have linings. measures that murray energy lobbied against back in march of 2017. murrays lobbyist, the new acting epa chief andrew wheeler. >>...

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Limiting nationwide limits to greenhouse gas emissions and supporting the continued use of fossil fuels. in october 2017 wheeler was nominated by the president to become the deputy administrator. he was, as john said, he was confirmed by the senate. now he will be the acting epa director in the short time. and you go back to john roberts talking about the letter that scott pruitt gave the president and the personal note. we talked about when we first heard that scott pruitt resigned. yesterday a...