The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has scheduled a joint confirmation hearing next week on two of President Donald Trump’s candidates for top EPA posts: David Fotouhi to be deputy administrator and Aaron Szabo to be assistant administrator of the Office of Air and Radiation.
The hearing will be Wednesday, according to a committee advisory. In the wake of Lee Zeldin’s confirmation as agency administrator, they are the next two EPA nominees to come before the panel.
Each served in Trump’s first administration: Fotouhi in various jobs at EPA’s general counsel’s office, Szabo as senior counsel with the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
After most recently working for the firm of Faegre Drinker Biddle and Reath, Szabo is now at EPA as a senior adviser to the administrator.
