Staunch Anti-Regulation Aide to Cheney Top Candidate for Climate Job. By Juliet Eilperin, August 19, 2008. "A senior aide to Vice President Cheney is the leading contender [for] a top official at the Energy Department... a promotion that would put one of the administration's most ardent opponents of environmental regulation in charge of forming department policies on climate change. F. Chase Hutto III has played a prominent behind-the-scenes role [in the administration for several years]... helping to rewrite rules affecting the air that Americans breathe and the waters that oil tankers traverse. In every instance, according to both his allies and opponents, he has challenged proposals that would place additional regulations on industry. The move to promote [him] to the post of assistant secretary for policy and international affairs signals the administration's determination to resist new environmental protections, environmentalists say... Jason K. Burnett... who served as the EPA's deputy associate administrator until June, said...: '[Hutto] always struck me as being naturally and philosophically opposed to regulation at the outset, and it took an enormous amount of discussion and analysis to convince him otherwise.' He added: 'I can't think of a case where Chase [has ever]advocated [for] more environmental or health protections.'"
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