新代理環保署長預計將繼續放鬆監管

President Donald Trump says he has "no doubt" the new acting chief of the EPA, Andrew Wheeler, will continue with "our great and lasting EPA agenda."

But environmentalists and some Democrats are already saying they are afraid that's exactly what he will do -- keep Scott Pruitt's policy of deregulation.

The Ohio-born Wheeler is a former lawyer and longtime coal industry lobbyist.

He is also a former chief of staff for Oklahoma Republican Senator James Inhofe -- one of the country's most vocal deniers of climate change.

Wheeler is also a critic of those who say human activity is causing the Earth to get warmer.川普總統說，他“絲毫不懷疑”新任環保署代理署長惠勒將繼續推行“我們宏偉、持久的環保署使命”。

不過，一些環保人士和民主黨人說，這正是他們擔心惠勒將要做的 – 維持普魯伊特的放鬆監管政策。

出生在俄亥俄州的惠勒曾經做過律師，並長期爲煤礦產業遊說。

惠勒還曾擔任過來自奧克拉荷馬州的英霍夫參議員的辦公室主任。英霍夫參議員是美國最堅定否認氣候變化的人士之一。

惠勒對那些宣稱人類活動造成地球氣候變暖的人持批評態度。