A Senate committee has approved President Trump’s nominees for four key U.S. Environmental Protection Agency posts as well as his choice to lead the Federal Highway Administration, but the panel’s senior Democrat is vowing to fight at least one of those EPA picks—Michael Dourson, Trump’s selection to head EPA’s office of chemical safety and pollution prevention.
The closest calls at the Environment and Public Works Committee’s Oct. 25 meeting were 11-10, party-line votes to approve Dourson and attorney William Wehrum, Trump’s nominee to lead EPA’s office of air and radiation. [View webcast of meeting here.]