100 Days in office, Wheeler Attacks Public Health, Clean Air, Climate Every 3 Days

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today marks 100 days since Andrew Wheeler took the reigns as acting Environmental Protection Agency administrator. On average since accepting the position, Wheeler has made decisions to attack public health, clean air and water, and our climate every three days. From acting to roll back the Clean Power Plan, Clean Car Standards, and protections from Mercury poisoning, to placing the head of the Office of Children’s Health on leave, Wheeler has regularly used his position to put the health of the public at risk.   

View the Lowlights from Wheeler’s First 100 Days Here

During his 100 days in office Wheeler has:

• 39 moves to attack our public health

• 14 major safeguard rollbacks

• 8 meetings with the fossil fuel industry and corporate polluters (at least)

• 8 misleading statements

• 3 office closings or dismantlings

• And hired a former Koch Brothers executive
  
  

In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement:

“There shouldn’t be a single day when the Administrator of the EPA schemes with corporate polluters to attack public health, but Andrew Wheeler has made it a regular habit in his 100 days in charge of the EPA. Every three days, Wheeler rolls back a climate or clean air safeguard, ignores and contradicts science, meets with big polluters, limits the EPA’s ability to protect us from pollution, or gives in to corporate polluter demands. On any given Monday he may dissolve a key office at the EPA, on Thursday he may roll back a climate safeguard, and on Sunday, he may meet with his former fossil fuel employers. Wheeler is following in Scott Pruitt’s dirty footsteps, which shouldn’t be surprising since he was until very recently a coal lobbyist. Wheeler is dangerous for the health of our communities and our families, and we’re counting down the days until he isn’t behind the wheel of the EPA.”