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EPA chief: ‘We’ve done more than Obama’

By Paul Bedard

Published July 10, 2020 1:21pm ET

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EPA chief: ‘We’ve done more than Obama’ — Andrew Wheeler, left, then the acting administrator of EPA, talks to reporters, Oct. 3, 2018, after touring the Georgetown Wet Weather Treatment Station in Seattle, a project funded by a low-interest loan from the EPA. The facility will treat millions of gallons of polluted stormwater that currently flows into Duwamish River during severe rainstorms.

The media has had a field day covering President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency, which turns 50 in December.

It helped drive the first, scandal-battered administrator out of office, broke records in filing Freedom of Information Act requests, and hyped every deregulation of Obama-era rules as a rollback to the days of sooty air and poisonous water that President Richard Nixon targeted in founding the agency in December 1970.

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