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  1. Wheeler began his DC career at the EPA as a special assistant in the pollution prevention and toxics office, according to his EPA bio. He has now been in DC for more than 20 years, and followed up his EPA post by working for infamous climate change denier and Republican Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, The New York Times reported. Inhofe once even threw a snowball on the Senate floor to assert that global warming wasn’t happening, according to Vox.

    Wheeler is one of several former Inhofe staffers, known as the “Inhofe mafia,” who have risen to prominent environment or energy positions in the Trump administration or work with influential lobbying firms, according to The New York Times.

    => Pruitt’s Replacement Andrew Wheeler Will Be ‘Much Smarter’ Threat, Environmentalists Fear

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