Days after the Environmental Protection Agency’s top official in California was abruptly removed from office, the agency announced it would replace him with a lawyer for the Pacific Gas & Electric Co., the state’s largest electric power provider.
from office, the agency announced Tuesday that it would replace him with John W. Busterud, a lawyer for the Pacific Gas & Electric Co., the state’s largest electric power provider.
Busterud’s appointment continues a trend within the Trump administration of staffing government environment jobs with people who have ties to the power sector, fossil fuels or agriculture — as well as other industries subject to environmental regulations. The appointment comes less than a week after the agency suddenly dismissed the regional office’s former administrator Mike Stoker,In a letter to his staff, Stoker speculated he was fired because of his congenial working relationship with Democratic lawmakers, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and because he had clashed with agency officials in Washington “over policy and non-policy items.”
“Mike was too interested in travel for the sake of travel and ignored necessary decision making required of a regional administrator,” she said in the statement.
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