Trump's Supreme Court Pick Neil Gorsuch: 5 Things You Need to Know
3. His Mother Once Headed the EPA
Gorsuch is the son of the late Anne Gorsuch Burford, who formerly headed the Environmental Protection Agency under President Ronald Reagan.
During her time as head of the EPA, she garnered controversy for her efforts to reduce regulations and eventually was forced to resign in 1983.
"Republicans and Democrats alike accused Ms. Burford of dismantling her agency rather than directing it to aggressively protect the environment," reported The Washington Post in Burford's 2004 obituary.
"They pointed to budgets cuts for research and enforcement, to steep declines in the number of cases filed against polluters, to efforts to relax portions of the Clean Air Act, to an acceleration of federal approvals for the spraying of restricted pesticides and more."
