The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will vote Thursday on two candidates for top EPA posts.
The markup for President Donald Trump’s nominees comes barely a week after the committee held a joint hearing for David Fotouhi to become EPA deputy administrator and Aaron Szabo to become assistant administrator of the agency’s Office of Air and Radiation. The two are expected to win the panel’s approval, albeit possibly along party-line votes.
Fotouhi and Szabo are both lawyers who in recent years have each had numerous industry clients subject to EPA regulations, according to their disclosure reports.
Szabo is already at EPA as an adviser to Administrator Lee Zeldin; Fotouhi remains in private practice with the firm of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, and plans to join the agency upon winning Senate confirmation.
