Climate
change sceptic Kathleen Hartnett White dropped as Trump environment expert
White House to
withdraw nomination of controversial figure to chair Council on Environmental
Quality
Associated
Press
Sun 4 Feb
2018 04.23 GMT
Kathleen Hartnett White speaks during her
confirmation hearing in November.
The
nomination of Kathleen Hartnett White, a climate change sceptic, to serve as
Donald Trump’s top environmental adviser is to be withdrawn, the White House
has confirmed.
White was
announced in October last year as Trump’s choice to chair the Council on
Environmental Quality.
But White’s
nomination languished and was among a batch of nominations the Senate sent back
to the White House when it adjourned at the end of 2017. Trump would have had
to resubmit White’s nomination.
She made
headlines in November last year when she had difficulty answering basic
questions about climate change.
The
Washington Post first reported late on Saturday on the plans to pull White’s
nomination, citing two unnamed administration officials who had been briefed on
the matter.
A White
House official later confirmed the Post report. The official was not authorised
to discuss personnel decisions by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.
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