11/10/2026 at 10:30AM
On Tuesday, November 10, at 10:30 a.m., U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, will hold a hearing to consider the nomination of Justin Schwab to be Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Nominee:
- Justin Schwab, to be Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation of the Environmental Protection Agency
Justin Schwab is the founder of CGCN Law, a law practice in DC focusing on environmental, energy, and administrative law. He served as Deputy General Counsel at EPA from 2017 through 2019. Prior to that, he practiced administrative law at BakerHostetler’s DC Office. He clerked for the Second Circuit and the Utah Supreme Court, and has a law degree from Yale and a PhD in Classics from Berkeley. He had been serving as general counsel for the White House Council on Environmental Quality before moving in July to be a senior advisor to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.
During the first Trump administration, Schwab played a key role in killing Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
Before joining the administration, Schwab was an attorney at Baker & Hostetler LLP, where his clients included the utility giant Southern Co., according to his financial disclosure form (Greenwire, May 8).Schwab’s other industry clients included construction equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.; Scotts Co. LLC, which makes lawn care products; metal producer Mississippi Silicon LLC; and steelmaker Big River Steel LLC.