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The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Automotive Industries page on 12 September 2018, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Andrew R. Wheeler is an American lawyer, former lobbyist and since July 9, 2018 Acting Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He previously worked in the law firm Faegre Baker Daniels, representing coal magnate Robert E. Murray and lobbying against the Obama Administration's environmental regulations. Wheeler was also an aide to U.S. Senator James Inhofe, prominent for his rejection of climate change. Wheeler is a critic of limits on greenhouse gas emissions and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
In October 2017, Wheeler was nominated by President Donald Trump, renominated in January 2018 and confirmed as Deputy Administrator of the EPA in April 2018. On July 9, 2018, Wheeler became the Acting Administrator after the resignation of Scott Pruitt.