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Senate EPW committee favorably reports two EPA presidential nominations after brief debate and a pointed opening statement
Summary
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Oct. 12 voted 10–9 to favorably report the nominations of David Fatui to be deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and Aaron Zabo to be an assistant administrator.
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Oct. 12 voted 10–9 to favorably report two presidential nominations for the Environmental Protection Agency: David Fatui of Virginia to be deputy administrator and Aaron Zabo of Virginia to be an assistant administrator.
Ranking Member Sheldon Whitehouse used his opening remarks to play about two minutes and 20 seconds of an earlier hearing involving Andrew Sabo and to criticize what he described as a pattern of climate-change skepticism in recent nominees and officials. "The notion that we're now in a place in which the person in charge of protecting us in this area is saying that it's a climate change religion and not climate science puts me into a really challenging position," Whitehouse said during his remarks.
Why it matters: Both nominations were moved, seconded and advanced…
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