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Thursday, March 9th, 2017

E.P.A. Head Stacks Agency With Climate Change Skeptics

Author:     CORAL DAVENPORT
Source:     The New York Times
Publication Date:     MARCH 7, 2017
 Link: E.P.A. Head Stacks Agency With Climate Change Skeptics
Stephan:   Scott Pruitt, the man selected by Donald Trump to oversee how America dealt with the wellbeing of the planet and the beings who inhabit it is doing just what Trump wanted him to do: he is gutting the system and, where he can't gut it he is putting senior management in place who share his views that environmental regulations are all bad both conceptually and in detail. As a result all of us will live in a world where the environment is degraded and little of consequence is done to prepare the country for the climate change that is going to overwhelm us because we will be unprepared. If you voted for Trump, or a third party candidate, or didn't bother to vote, you face some serious karma.

Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, last month. He built a career suing the agency he now leads.
Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

WASHINGTON — Days after the Senate confirmed him as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference and was asked about addressing a group that probably wanted to eliminate his agency.

“I think it’s justified,” he responded, to cheers. “I think people across the country look at the E.P.A. the way they look at the I.R.S.”

In the days since, Mr. Pruitt, a former Oklahoma attorney general who built a career out of suing the agency he now leads, has moved to stock the top offices of the agency with like-minded conservatives — many of them skeptics of climate change and all of them intent on rolling back environmental regulations that […]

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