Quoted: Wheeler defends EPA’s regulatory agenda, enforcement policy

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler in a June 25 interview defended the agency’s overall agenda and its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, touting criminal enforcement and Superfund cleanup statistics while pushing back on criticism of its climate rollbacks, saying “it’s not the only environmental issue out there.” Wheeler’s appearance on BNN Bloomberg , the media conglomerate’s Canadian arm, initially focused on environmental provisions in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which is slated to take effect July 1 as the replacement for...