BILL WEHRUM
Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation
2017-2019
EPA OFFICIAL BILL WEHRUM STAYED IN CLOSE TOUCH WITH HIS FORMER LAW FIRM, NEW EMAILS SHOW
February 13, 2019
The trove of emails between Wehrum and officials at Hunton & Williams — which changed its name to Hunton Andrews Kurth after a 2018 merger — shows the extent to which he communicated and socialized with his former associates even though many of them had clients with business before the EPA. The documents were released Monday as part of ongoing litigation by the Sierra Club, an advocacy group.
BILL WEHRUM, AN AUTHOR OF TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S PRO-COAL RULES, TO LEAVE E.P.A.
June 26, 2019
"Mr. Wehrum oversaw the most relentless rollback of clean air, climate and health safeguards in E.P.A.’s history,” said John Walke, clean air director for the Natural Resources Defense Council. “E.P.A. strengthened not a single meaningful air quality or climate safeguard during his tenure.”
BILL WEHRUM, AN ARCHITECT OF E.P.A. ROLLBACKS, FACES NEW ETHICS INQUIRY
The inquiry will look into whether Mr. Wehrum’s efforts at the E.P.A. to weaken climate change and air pollution standards improperly benefited those former clients, a congressional aide said.
July 22, 2019
OVERSIGHT FINDS EPA POLITICAL APPOINTEES SLOW-WALKED ETHICS OBLIGATIONS
January 17, 2020
Calling it an "egregious case," the analysis found Wehrum took 300 days to finalize his recusal statement, in the interim leading on a number of air regulations beneficial to former clients from his days as a coal, oil and gas lobbyist.