EPA's Wheeler Now Trotting From State To State In Effort To Buff Trump's Environmental "Record"

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Earlier in the month, Wheeler relaunched a Great Lakes advisory council and toured coastal erosion near St. Joseph, Mich. Trump recently reversed course to support funding the popular Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, after his White House called for slashing its funding for three years in a row. The program gives money to nonprofit groups, local governments and other federal agencies to restore habitat and battle toxic algae blooms. "I support the Great Lakes. Always have," Trump said during a rally last year in Grand Rapids, Mich., to announce the move. "They're beautiful. They're big. Very deep. Record deep."

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The agency said Wheeler's spate of recent trips have more to do getting back to work during the coronavirus pandemic. "As the country moves toward reopening, EPA Administrator Wheeler is resuming travel to fulfill the agency's mission to protect human health and the environment in all 10 of EPA's regions," agency spokesman James Hewitt said. "His visit this week coincides with important agency announcements that positively impact the people of Wisconsin."

"Given the polling it makes sense Wheeler would be heading to battlegrounds to greenwash Trump's abysmal record," said Pete Maysmith, a senior vice president at the League of Conservation Voters, "but no amount of damage control can clean their mess up." The LCV's campaign arm, which spent upward of $80 million in the 2018 election, is backing the former vice president.

John Walke, clean air director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said that even if air quality has gotten better in some Midwestern counties, "there's no sign at all that the Trump administration had anything to do with those improvements."

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https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Trump-s-EPA-chief-drops-into-battleground-states-15343129.php

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