President Donald Trump’s nominee to oversee ocean and international environmental issues at the State Department will likely advance to the Senate floor this week.
The Foreign Relations Committee will vote on Wesley Brooks to become assistant secretary of State for oceans and international environmental and scientific affairs.
Brooks, who has been a senior official at EPA’s Office of Water, pointed to deep-sea mining and protecting the plastics industry during international negotiations as priorities.
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The nominee called for a “commonsense environmental policy” and preventing regulations that would “stifle innovation and disadvantage U.S. companies.”
