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EPA Nomination of William Wehrum

Our Position: oppose
Bill Number: PN1917-109
Sponsor: Presidential nomination
Legislative Session: 2006

During the five years William Wehrum has served in the EPA’s Air & Radiation Office, he has sought to weaken public health and environmental protections while marginalizing the roles of agency experts and other critics. Mr. Wehrum was a principal player in the decision not to regulate mercury as a hazardous air pollutant, and has been the central force behind the administration’s controversial changes to the Clean Air Act’s new source review (NSR) provision. He has also worked to weaken pollution control standards for hazardous air pollutants, seeking to allow industrial polluters to bypass pollution standards altogether.

Status

Although this controversial nomination was approved in the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee on a 10-8 party line vote earlier this year, it was sent back to the President when the Senate left for recess in August. Wehrum was renominated in early September, but the nomination has not yet reached the Senate floor.

Contact

Alice McKeown
Associate Washington Representative, Clean Air
alice.mckeown@sierraclub.org