EPA administrator: Environmental policy changes aren’t meant to hamstring future regulations

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Andrew Wheeler, the nation’s top environment official, said broad changes he’s implementing to decades-old Environmental Protection Agency methods for setting policy and considering science aren’t meant to keep future administrations from issuing strict pollution limits.

“I fundamentally believe the more information we put out to the public, the better our regulations will be,” Wheeler told the Washington Examiner during an interview in his office Wednesday.

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