President Donald Trump’s nominee to head EPA’s air office acknowledged Wednesday that climate change is occurring but would not say that government action is needed to cut the greenhouse gas releases tied to rising temperatures.
“I believe that we need to be adapting to all changes, including those,” Aaron Szabo said at the morning confirmation hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Pressed both by ranking member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and later by Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Szabo would go little further apart from agreeing that human activities are a factor.
Asked by Whitehouse whether steps are needed to prevent or mitigate climate change, for example, Szabo said he “was bound by the laws Congress established.”
