Biologista Professor Ricardo Hisamoto: Add your name to tell the Senate to block Andrew Wheeler's nomination to EPA

People,

Installing a coal lobbyist as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would tarnish the agency's credibility in the best scenario and put the U.S. on a faster track towards climate catastrophe in the worst.

Please add your name to tell the Senate to block the outrageous nomination of Andrew Wheeler as EPA Administrator.

The heartbreaking fires in California and Hurricanes in the Atlantic are just two of the growing and calamitous effects of climate change. In the role of EPA Administrator, we need someone that will work to revert the deadly course we are on–not someone that has a history of blocking environmental protections and rejecting climate science.

Polar bears, wolverines, and many other species that are suffering due to a warming world cannot afford to wait out Trump's term to see a responsible leader that will take on the causes of climate change. Please join us and our friends at CREDO in asking the Senate to reject Andrew Wheeler as EPA Administrator.

Thank you,

-Leda

Tell the Senate: Block and resist Andrew Wheeler for EPA administrator

The petition to the Senate reads:
"Do not confirm a coal lobbyist as EPA administrator. Block and resist Andrew Wheeler's appointment to the EPA."

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Dear Ricardo,

Tell the Senate: Block and resist Andrew Wheeler for EPA administrator

Andrew Wheeler wants to convince us that he is a more moderate, ethical EPA leader than his predecessor Scott Pruitt.Don't be fooled.

Wheeler is a former coal lobbyist who rejects climate science and tweets racist and extremist right-wing content. In his short time as acting EPA administrator, he has reversed key environmental protections with lethal efficiency. He is anything but moderate.

Now Trump has nominated Wheeler as permanent EPA administrator. As the Senate considers his confirmation, we need to make sure that our senators know where we stand. Putting a coal lobbyist in charge of environment protection is completely unacceptable.

Tell the Senate: Block and resist the confirmation of coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler as EPA administrator. Click here to sign the petition.

Far from his carefully cultivated image as the "grown-up" version of Scott Pruitt, Wheeler lives in the fact-free, conspiracy-filled world of the extreme far right.

His social media record is telling – and disturbing. In 2013, Wheeler "liked" a racist Facebook post dehumanizing Pres. and First Lady Obama.¹ After Twitter banned alt-right troll Milo Yiannopolous for encouraging fans to harass comedian Leslie Jones, Wheeler shared an Infowars video defending him.² Just this year, he retweeted a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist.³

Wheeler's relationship to reality is just as tenuous when it comes to science. Wheeler tweeted links promoting climate change denial in 2009, 2011 and 2015.⁴ He is a former adviser to notoriously anti-science Sen. James Inhofe, who once brought a snowball to the Senate to disprove climate change.

As the acting EPA administrator, Wheeler has been just as destructive as Pruitt. He is working to roll back fuel efficiency standards and put more brain-damaging mercury in the environment.⁵ He put the head of the Office of Children's Health Protection on administrative leave without cause and removed mentions of climate change from the EPA's website.⁶

Like Pruitt, Wheeler has shown that partisanship and career ambition are more important to him than avoiding ethical conflicts of interest. When Trump first nominated Wheeler as deputy EPA administrator, Wheeler hosted fundraisers for Republican senators on the committee responsible for advancing his nomination.⁷

Even with a Republican-controlled Senate, public pressure has forced Trump to withdraw some of his most controversial nominees.⁸ Other Trump officials resigned after news broke about their own past racist statements.⁹ With enough pressure on the Senate, we can block Wheeler's confirmation.

Tell the Senate: Block and resist the confirmation of coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler as EPA administrator. Click the link below to sign the petition:

https://act.credoaction.com/sign/reject-wheeler-epa_esc/

Thanks for fighting back,

Brandy Doyle, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets

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