Senate Environment and Public Works ranking member Sheldon Whitehouse on Wednesday pushed to learn more about President Donald Trump’s dealings with the oil and gas industry during last year’s campaign.
Usha-Maria Turner, Trump’s nominee to lead EPA’s Office of International and Tribal Affairs, appeared before EPW for her confirmation hearing.
She recently was a top executive at Chesapeake Energy, the Oklahoma City-headquartered natural gas producer that has since rebranded as Expand Energy.
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Whitehouse (D-R.I.) pressed her on what she knew about the president’s meeting with fossil fuel officials where Trump asked them for $1 billion in campaign contributions at his Mar-a-Lago estate in April last year.
