Scott PfitzingerFirst, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry. He helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA objecting to controls on methane emissions.
Then he became a top official at the EPA and now he is doing Big Oil’s dirty work from inside the EPA.
"In his current role overseeing federal climate rules at the EPA, Szabo has been soliciting input and even specific regulatory language from oil industry groups that stand to gain from watered-down methane rules."
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-methane-deregulation-aaron-szabo-oil-gas-axpc
The Trump EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regulations Helped Write Oil Industry Argument Against Those Rules
Before becoming a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry. Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA objecting to controls on methane emissions.