"EPA Chief Defends Rule Rollbacks While At Children’s Health Event"

"Acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Andrew Wheeler on Monday emphatically defended his agency’s environmental policy rollbacks as he argued that the EPA is significantly contributing to children’s health.

At the event in a courtyard at the EPA’s Washington headquarters celebrating Child Health Day, Wheeler faced numerous questions from reporters about how the Trump administration’s efforts to ease major regulations will impact children, a population considered especially vulnerable to pollution.

Wheeler repeatedly maintained that the EPA isn’t touching “health-based” standards, and criticized the accounting methods that forecast widespread health impacts from the changes he is carrying out."

Timothy Cama reports for The Hill October 1, 2018.