Posted on 07/05/2018 9:38:19 PM PDT by Innovative
Green groups cheered the resignation Thursday of Scott Pruitt, saying the Environmental Protection Agency administrators multiple ethical lapses and pro-polluter tilt made him unsuitable for the nations highest environmental post.
But the activists doubted that the departure, announced by President Trump via Twitter, would change the administration's policies. The EPA will now be led by an interim chief, Andrew Wheeler, who was a coal industry lobbyist before he was confirmed as Pruitt's deputy in April.
Pruitts tenure was marked by more than a dozen investigations into alleged conflicts of interest and controversial spending of taxpayer funds ranging from his use of an outsized security detail, to his scheduling of numerous expensive foreign trips, to his acceptance of what appeared to be a below-market condominium rental connected to a lobbyist.
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That's why we call them watermelons -- green on the outside, RED on the inside!
The only way the Greens would be satisfied with an Interior Secretary would be if John Muir was reanimated into a zombie.
How many times does a river have to catch fire before you notice the problem, and then how long to decide to do something about it?
We are the EPAs reason to be, but, like with so many things in our swamp these days, it has grown way too big for its britches and needs to be brought to heel.
Same for the NTSB or whoever it was who screwed up the headrests in cars and trucks since 2009.
Checks and balances. We needed the EPA to check and balance our nature and now we need to check and balance the EPA for the same reason.
The states can handle anything useful the EPA is doing, or else we need a Constitutional amendment to authorize the EPA.
States dont have control of the air that comes and goes, nor do they have control of the water that flows in and out and beyond their borders.
Were family. We all share the same stuff, but were increasing in number and in our demands for and rights to these shared resources.
You fill our packed elevator with your buttgas and your personal dietary choices have now become our shared problem.
So, I dont have a problem with a federal overseer of fair standards arbitrating where and where needed, because sooner or later it always is needed.
But, I do have a problem when somethings out of control, especially when that something has great power, but few checks and balances.
Like the EPA, for one swampy example.
-—Were family. -—
No longer.
It has become existential. We must slay the lions in the arena or be eaten
Lucky for US, we just happen to have a lion slayer/lion tamer currently on duty.
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