ExxonKnews
March 5, 2025
David Fotouhi made his career as a lawyer representing corporate polluters, helping the first Trump administration unravel climate and water protections at the Environmental Protection Agency, and then fighting the agency’s regulations on behalf of industry during the Biden years.
He is now poised to return to the EPA as its new deputy administrator, the second highest-ranking official at the federal agency tasked with protecting the public from pollution in the environment.
“If confirmed, I will work every day to earn and keep the public's trust in EPA and its actions,” Fotouhi told senators during a confirmation hearing today, in which he testified to his “belief in the importance of the rule of law” and that “environmental protection and conservation is woven into every fiber of this country.”
