Andrew R. Wheeler



Andrew R. Wheeler (December 23, 1964 –) is an American attorney who served as the 15th administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 2019 to 2021 under President Donald Trump. He served as the deputy administrator from April to July 2018, and served as the acting administrator from July 2018 to February 2019. He previously worked in the law firm Faegre Baker Daniels, representing coal magnate Robert E. Murray and lobbying against the Obama Administration's environmental regulations. Wheeler served as chief counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and to the chairman U.S. senator James Inhofe, prominent for his rejection of climate change. Wheeler is a critic of limits on greenhouse gas emissions and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Quotes

 * If another country wants to buy fossil fuel on the open market, they should look to the United States; we do everything in a much more environmentally conscious manner than anyone else.
 * Exclusive—EPA’s Andrew Wheeler: Green New Deal Activists Don’t Want American ‘Energy Domination’ (2 March 2019)


 * When we not only get rid of our jobs and it hurts the American worker, but then it exports those jobs to countries like China that do horrible things to the environment, so it's really a lose-lose for us when we cancel pipelines like that or when we decide to stop using fracking and developing our natural gas resources here.
 * Exclusive–Former Trump EPA Administrator: Media Buried Climate Progress Made Under Trump Administration (13 March 2021)