Senate GOP Confirms Wheeler As EPA Chief, Amid Democrats' Attacks

Senate Republicans have voted to confirm Andrew Wheeler to be the Trump EPA's second permanent administrator, after the chamber's Democrats uniformly rejected the nomination while slamming the agency’s rollbacks of climate and other regulations. The chamber voted 52-47 on Feb. 28 to confirm Wheeler, who had been serving as acting chief since July after former Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned amid a swirl of ethics scandals. Two relatively moderate lawmakers who had earlier voted to confirm Wheeler as deputy administrator in...