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Brouillette's COVID-19 test results have been negative and he is
not exhibiting any symptoms but "out of an abundance of caution,
the Secretary and traveling staff will be returning by vehicle
to Washington and following CDC guidance," department
spokeswoman Shaylyn Hynes said on Twitter.
Brouillette has been traveling frequently to several
battleground states ahead of the Nov. 3 presidential election.
On Tuesday he visited Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and spoke at an
event with Senator Lamar Alexander and U.S. Representative Chuck
Fleischmann and Governor Bill Lee, all Republicans.
On Wednesday, Lee said he would quarantine at home after a
member of his security staff tested positive for the coronavirus.
On Thursday Brouillette toured western Pennsylvania, an energy
rich state, visited frequently by President Donald Trump and his
Democratic challenger, Joe Biden. In Johnston, Brouillette
visited Concurrent Technologies Corporation, a nonprofit
scientific research and development group. In Erie, he visited a
local union hall meeting with plumbers, steamfitters and
boilermakers.
On Friday Brouillette had been scheduled to visit Ohio to
participate in a roundtable with leaders across the energy
industry at Youngstown State University and then meet local
officials backing a petrochemical project in Belmont County.
More than 217,000 people in the United States are reported to
have died from the novel coronavirus, more than in any other
country.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew
Wheeler and Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, two other
members of Trump's administration who work on energy and
environment issues, have also been traveling frequently ahead of
the election.
(Reporting by Timothy Gardner; Editing by Marguerita Choy and
Tom Brown)
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