Links tagged “pruitt”
- MEDIA BIAS? FOIAS TO EPA FROM NYT AND WAPO EXPLODED AFTER TRUMP’S ELECTION
- EPA Career Staffers Freaked When Pruitt Tried to Stage Climate Debate – Would ‘set back the cause of combating global warming by legitimizing politically motivated skeptics’
The biggest missed opportunity of the Trump Administration!
Ultimately, Pruitt’s climate debate proposition was killed off before it could be launched, nixed by Chief of Staff John Kelly out of concern about blowback. But internal EPA emails from the time period when the idea was being considered illustrate the degree to which the Trump administration left officials within the EPA deeply shaken and fearful of politics overtaking scientific consensus.
- Former EPA official ‘Trump Admin. has done a good job of announcing various deregulatory changes, but have not been as effective in actually repealing regulations’
- Flashback: Analysis of EPA: Climate change ‘politicized the EPA’ – ‘EPA has (mostly) solved the most basic and widespread public health and environmental problems that plagued the U.S’
Amy Harder of Axios: 'The EPA has (mostly) solved the most basic and widespread public health and environmental problems that plagued the U.S. back around the '60's. Climate change is now the top environmental issue in the country. That politicizes the EPA, makes it less of a big deal to average Americans and fuels antipathy from elected Republicans, most of whom don't acknowledge it's a real issue.'
'The Obama administration issued a steady stream of major regulations on climate change...It was one of the most aggressive EPA's ever'
'Most past Republican presidents nominated EPA administrators who were more to the left on environmental issues than the Republican Party writ large.'
- Former EPA whistle-blower laments the ‘Trump Administration’s Likely Unwillingness to End the Climate Scam’
Alan Carlin: "It has become evident that the Pruitt EPA did not want to challenge the scientific climate “consensus,” either because they did not think that they could win the ensuing battle or because they wanted to avoid angering voters who accept the scientific “consensus” on climate."
- Counter UN climate report: ‘3,000 pages, 10,000 footnotes say don’t blame mankind’
- ‘Brave new world’ as team Inhofe takes over at EPA
- EPA’s ‘Andrew Wheeler will not only continue Pruitt’s deregulation agenda, but will be much more effective at it’
- Delingpole: Pruitt Is Gone, but Trump Is Still Winning the Energy Wars
- NYT: Scott Pruitt’s Rocky Relationship With His Aides Set the Stage for His Fall
