Trump is having trouble finding someone willing to run EPA Region 9
January 26, 2018
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has been overseeing the substantial reduction in staff of the his agency.
However, each of the 10 regional offices usually have a designated head to run the local operations. One of those regions still lacks a chief because the administration is finding it difficult to locate someone wiling to face the gauntlet of eco-activists in the San Fransisco Region 9 headquarters.
"On Tuesday, an oil and gas lobbyist from New Mexico who, according to several people inside the Trump administration, was poised to fill the post told The Times it was all a big mistake. He'd be staying put in New Mexico.