The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) air policy chief is leaving, amid ethics concerns.
The agency on Wednesday announced that Bill Wehrum, the head of EPA’s Office on Air and Radiation, will leave the agency by the end of June.
The announcement comes a few months after lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce Committee launched an investigation into whether Wehrum and his deputy improperly aided former energy industry clients after joining the EPA.
Wehrum was an integral player in rolling back a number of Obama-era pollution rules, including most recently Tuesday’s finalized repeal of the “once in, always in” regulation for major sources of air pollution.
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