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    Top Clean-Air Official Plans To Step Down From EPA Post Amid Ethics Probe

    Bill Wehrum, who last week scored a victory for coal industry supporters by rolling back Obama-era power plant emissions rules, is leaving his post at the end of the month.
    by Vanessa Romo Jun 26, 2019 2 minutes
    Bill Wehrum, the Environmental Protection Agencys top air policy official, said he is stepping down at the end of June.

    Bill Wehrum is stepping down as the Environmental Protection Agency's chief air quality official at the end of the month, amid mounting scrutiny over possible ethics violations.

    EPA Administrator Andrew Andrew Wheeler said Wednesday that Wehrum's departure as the head of the agency's Office of Air and Radiation is both

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