The following article by Mark Hand was posted on the ThinkProgress website June 5, 2018:
Scott Walker’s former environmental chief now oversees six-state region for the EPA.
This is part two of ThinkProgress’ State of Conflicted Interest series.
Over the past seven years, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has overseen a sweeping rollback of state environmental protections, implementing a suite of industry-friendly policies that have since been embraced by the Trump administration at the national level.
During his tenure, Walker has cut back on enforcement, overlooked air and water pollution, and scrubbed climate change information from government websites — all drastic actions Scott Pruitt has also taken at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).