White House Backs Down on Keeping Ethics Waivers Secret

Michael Catanzaro, who until early this year worked as a lobbyist for a coal-burning electric utility and an oil and gas company, among other clients. He is now the top White House policy official overseeing the rollback of the same environmental protection rules he had lobbied against.

.. But he also made clear that there should not have been a need for a confrontation before these waivers were made public.