Vote Today: 300 Scientists Oppose Trump CEQ Nominee Over "Lying"

"Kathleen Hartnett White's nomination for the top White House environment post is set for a Senate committee vote on Wednesday."

"More than 300 scientists wrote to the Senate on Tuesday opposing Kathleen Hartnett White's nomination to the top White House environment post. They cited the importance of scientific integrity and wrote that they oppose her nomination "because one thing more dangerous than climate change is lying."

On Wednesday, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is scheduled to vote on White's nomination to head the Council on Environmental Quality. Approval by the full Senate, the next step, would place a fossil fuels industry supporter and vocal denier of mainstream climate science at the center of federal interagency policy discussions on energy and environment.

Also up for a committee vote is Andrew Wheeler, a coal lobbyist who President Donald Trump picked to be second in command at the Environmental Protection Agency."

InsideClimate News had the story November 28, 2017.