Michael Bastasch, a climate skeptic and the Daily Caller News Foundation’s editor-in-chief, announced he will be joining EPA as a senior adviser for communications.
He said in a post on X on Thursday afternoon he is “thrilled to be joining” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and “working for the Trump admin.”
Neither Bastasch nor EPA responded to questions Friday.
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Bastasch first joined the Daily Caller, a conservative news outlet founded by Tucker Carlson, in 2012 as an energy reporter, according to his LinkedIn profile. After a three-year stint as a writer at Fox News TV, he returned to the Daily Caller as its managing editor in 2022.
