The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will question two EPA nominees this week, the first to come up since administrator Lee Zeldin was confirmed.
Democrats are likely to use the hearing to protest Zeldin’s recommendation for the administration to undo the 2009 endangerment finding, which supports climate regulations.
On the agenda are David Fotouhi to be deputy administrator and Aaron Szabo to be assistant administrator of the Office of Air and Radiation. That’s the office that oversees climate rulemaking under the Clean Air Act.
“That greenhouse gases harm public health was scientific fact when the endangerment finding was issued in 2009; 16 years later, the evidence has only gotten stronger, and the looming economic harms more dangerous,” said Environment and Public Works ranking member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) last week.
