The man in charge of cleaning up America's pollution seemingly can't name three things the government is doing to clean up pollution.
Andrew Wheeler, the acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, who President Trump said he'd nominate to lead the agency full time, appeared at a Washington Post live event on Wednesday. It was the perfect opportunity to grill Wheeler on a Trump administration report that showed the U.S. isn't going far enough to combat climate change — and an opportunity Wheeler took to question much of the report's findings.
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