President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead a crucial White House environmental office took a step closer toward confirmation Wednesday.
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved Katherine Scarlett, picked for the chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, on a 12-7 vote.
Two Democrats, ranking member Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, joined all Republicans in support of Trump’s nominee.
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Scarlett, already serving as CEQ’s chief of staff, has played a key role in the administration’s push to speed up the permitting process to bring large-scale energy infrastructure projects online.
