"Trump EPA Transition Team Lacks Expertise on Chemicals, Water"

"President-elect Donald Trump’s landing team at the Environmental Protection Agency includes some of the Obama administration’s biggest foes on climate and energy policy.

But what appears to be absent from the nine members of the EPA transition team is any background in chemicals, pesticides, water pollution, and other policy areas where the agency enforces environmental laws to control contamination and protect public health.

By way of comparison, President Barack Obama’s energy and natural resources transition team had “a broad mix of expertise,” said Robert Sussman, the co-chair of the Obama transition team in 2008 who later joined the EPA as a senior policy adviser. "

Tiffany Stecker reports for Bloomberg BNA's Daily Environment Report December 22, 2016.