I value your input and feedback and you will find me and my team ready to listen. To the employees, I want you to know that I will start with the presumption that you are performing your work as well as it can be done, my instinct will be to defend your work and I will seek the facts from you before drawing conclusions.

Andrew Wheeler

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It's time to put California's waiver back in its box. by Andrew Wheeler

It's time to put California's waiver back in its box.

environment

We're acknowledging, and I think the American public needs to understand that they believe if they listen to the news every night they'd think the air's gotten worse over the last 49 years when actually the air's gotten better.

politics

The RIN prices have been relatively low and relatively calm since last spring so that would tell me that there should be less economic harm in the refining industry right now than there was a year ago, there's more than just the price of RINs for economic harm but just by that factor alone, I'd think maybe there would be fewer refinery exemptions because of that.

environment

Our technical guys then take a look what DOE sends us. If they send us 30 of them in one day, it may take us a while to process all of them. If we get one or two ... it would be a little bit easier to process them if they're scattered.

environment

The RIN price mechanisms should help bring down and keep the price of RINs lower and stable which the oil industry likes, and the E15 is something that the ethanol industry likes.

environment

We will continue to do work like that and we have had other enforcement actions against other auto companies ... We are moving forward, we have other cases in the works.

environment

As far as the 2018 applications we have not received the official applications from DOE yet, we're expecting those any day now, probably the next couple of days.

environment

If we get all 39 in one day it might be difficult to process all of them in 90 days, but we will do on a rolling basis.

environment

Their determination was disingenuous, they knew that the technology was not adequately demonstrated, which is what is required under the law.

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Our actions mark a significant departure from the one-size-fits-all policies of the past and save tens of millions of dollars in regulatory costs, this action provides the regulatory certainty needed to make investment decisions to ensure compliance and the continued protection of health and the environment.

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I think we can do all three of those things at the same time. by Andrew Wheeler

I think we can do all three of those things at the same time.

company-news

My grandfather was a coal miner during the Depression, my grandmother raised her children in the coal camps of West Virginia. In fact, I still have some of the company script that she used to buy food in the company store.

politics

While that’s flattering, I am not thinking about it, no, i could have put my hat in the ring for the administrator. I wasn’t interested in that. I am still not interested in that. Trump said Wheeler would assume duties as acting administrator of the EPA on July 9. I have no doubt that Andy will continue on with our great and lasting EPA agenda. We have made tremendous progress and the future of the EPA is very bright! Trump tweeted on July 5. Here are 3 things you need to know about the interim EPA chief before he officially changes roles. A former coal industry lobbyist, Wheeler helped lead an industry fight against regulations aimed at protecting Americans' health and addressing climate change. Many in the industry argued that the regulations would stifle business. Throughout his decades-long career, Wheeler has reportedly lobbied for at least 20 different companies, includingSargento Foods Inc., Whirlpool Corporation, and Xcel Energy, among others. During his time as a lobbyist, Wheelerworked alongside Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to reduce the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah by 85 percent and reserve a piece of the land for uranium mining, Fortune Magazine reported. In recent years, Wheeler has lobbied for Energy Fuels Resources Inc. and Murray Energy Corporation, which is run by longtime Trump supporter Robert Murray, who spent roughly $300,000 on the president's inauguration, according toThe New York Times. Wheeler worked for the EPA in the early 1990s, focusing on chemicals and toxic substance-related issues during the Bush and Clinton administrations. He later transitioned into the role of staff chief of the Senate Environment Committee andserved as counsel to Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. Wheeler joined the international law firmFaegre Baker Daniels after his stint at the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. During his time at the firm, he helped counsel a variety of clients on comprehensive legislative, regulatory and operational strategies, the firm states on its website. He worked on every major piece of environmental and energy-related legislation before Congress over the span of a decade, ProPublica reported.

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You won't be able to use 401 in the future, citing climate change.

We want to make sure that we comply with the 10th circuit opinion.