Obama Withdraws Brooks Nomination for EPA

President Barack Obama formally withdrew the nomination of Karl Brooks to serve as assistant administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Administration and Resources Management April 7. Back in February, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy announced Brooks would leave the EPA to become director of the executive master’s program in public leadership at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin32 DEN A-9, 2/18/16, See previous story, 02/18/16, 54 GERR 231, 2/23/16, 40 CRR 222, 2/22/16, 47 ER 563, 2/19/16, 31 ECR, 2/17/16. Brooks oversaw a wave of new employees joining the agency’s ranks in 2015 after nearly 800 long-time employees ...