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Bush EPA Head Trashes Trump EPA Head
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Red Team liars
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Date: September 08, 2017 09:33PM
Christine Todd Whitman, who headed the Environmental Protection Agency under former President George W. Bush, knew science-denier and current EPA chief Scott Pruitt was trouble when he walked in.
“I have been worried about how the Environmental Protection Agency would be run ever since President Trump appointed Scott Pruitt, the former attorney general of Oklahoma, to oversee it,” Whitman wrote in a New York Times op-ed. “The past few months have confirmed my fears. The agency created by a Republican president 47 years ago to protect the environment and public health may end up doing neither under Mr. Pruitt’s direction.”
From his directive to ban the “double-C word” (climate change) to his department’s personalized attacks on a journalist, Pruitt has provided ample evidence this month alone of his “dangerous” climate change denial.
“All of that is bad enough,” Whitman continues. “But Mr. Pruitt recently unveiled a plan that amounts to a slow-rolling catastrophe in the making: the creation of an antagonistic “red team” of dissenting scientists to challenge the conclusions reached by thousands of scientists over decades of research on climate change.”
The “red team” and their findings, she argues, “will serve only to confuse the public and sets a deeply troubling precedent for policy-making at the E.P.A.”
“I have been worried about how the Environmental Protection Agency would be run ever since President Trump appointed Scott Pruitt, the former attorney general of Oklahoma, to oversee it,” Whitman wrote in a New York Times op-ed. “The past few months have confirmed my fears. The agency created by a Republican president 47 years ago to protect the environment and public health may end up doing neither under Mr. Pruitt’s direction.”
From his directive to ban the “double-C word” (climate change) to his department’s personalized attacks on a journalist, Pruitt has provided ample evidence this month alone of his “dangerous” climate change denial.
“All of that is bad enough,” Whitman continues. “But Mr. Pruitt recently unveiled a plan that amounts to a slow-rolling catastrophe in the making: the creation of an antagonistic “red team” of dissenting scientists to challenge the conclusions reached by thousands of scientists over decades of research on climate change.”
The “red team” and their findings, she argues, “will serve only to confuse the public and sets a deeply troubling precedent for policy-making at the E.P.A.”
Re: Bush EPA Head Trashes Trump EPA Head
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Jerky Boys
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Date: September 08, 2017 10:20PM
The EPA is one of the biggest wastes in the government. You can be concerned about the environment. That's great. The EPA isn't doing much of anything to protect it. It's just a huge bureaucracy filled mostly with administrators and program managers and lawyers and policy analysts and contractors who operate in one big circle jerk. You seriously could cut 1/2 of the staff and budget it would have absolutely no effect on anything related to the environment. We probably made $100 million from it under our contracts and never did any useful productive work that mattered.
