The White House is planning to withdraw its nominee to head the Council on Environmental Quality, according to The Washington Post.
Kathleen Hartnett White’s nomination failed to gather momentum, and some Senate Republicans were questioning her expertise, the Post reported, citing two administration officials briefed on the matter.
CNN’s KFile reported Hartnett White, who would have overseen environmental and energy policies across the government, had described the belief in “global warming” as a “kind of paganism” for “secular elites” during a 2016 interview.