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After spending almost a decade as an energy lobbyist, Wheeler was appointed by Trump as the fifteenth head of the EPA, a post he held from 2019 to 2021. At the helm of the EPA, Wheeler executed an agenda of environmental deregulation former employees would later call an “extreme pursuit of ideology over science, the law, and stakeholder input,” in an open letter to Virginia state lawmakers. He rolled back methane emissions standards for oil and gas projects that even those companies supported, and EPA employees estimated he undid over 50 significant environmental regulations during his tenure.