Posted on 12/08/2016 11:04:01 AM PST by MountainWalker
Had Donald Trump spent an entire year scouring the country for someone to weaken clean air and clean water laws and repudiate America’s leadership role in the global battle against climate change, he could not have found a more suitable candidate than Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general, whom he picked on Wednesday to run the Environmental Protection Agency....
Mr. Pruitt has repeatedly suggested that the science of climate change is far from settled, when in fact it is, and says that scientists continue to disagree about whether there is a relationship between human activity and rising atmospheric temperatures, which they don’t. With each successive report, the thousands of scientists charged with monitoring global warming and its causes for the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have reaffirmed and indeed strengthened that connection....
Mr. Pruitt is the wrong person to lead an agency charged with custody of the nation’s environment. If the Senate cares about the public good, it needs to send his nomination to the dust bin.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The editorial board has a scientist of ANY kind on it?
And stop introducing them into farming/livestock country.
Folks who do not know what science is, say it’s “settled.”
Often, it WOULD be possible to save the owl, wolf, and frog if we weren’t pretending that they could only be found at places where humans wanted to do something significant.
Shutting down a renewable source of energy (forestry) was not a solution for the owl. It was insane. Setting aside millions of acres is absurd.
Finally, some non fake news from the Slimes.
Forestry could be rotated from area to area, ensuring that there is some place for the owl to be at a given time. When it is time to rotate, the owls will be moved to a different area.
Even an owl would agree that it is wise (pun intended)
To every, single EPA employee:
Bone up your resume’. Your about to have your last Christmas there.
The actual answer is going to lie somewhere between bloat and anarchy.
In many cases, the Feds can forget about certain areas of environmental management, that having been turned over to states.
Trump saves us from EPA. Trump doesn’t buy the global warm..er, climate change cabal.
Is it wrong for a man to love another man...
call him bro
Minorities and children hardest hit.
Ever notice how this phrase is so glibly thrown out there with zero context provided?
They never tell you the context behind "clean air" - namely, that the Obama EPA decided arbitrarily on its own with no input from Congress that CO2 - breathed out by every animal on earth - is now a toxic pollutant, that justifies shutting down all coal-fired power plants.
The MSM-preferred phrase "gutting clean air laws" without context sounds to most people, and is intended to sound to most people, as if acid rain and toxic, choking, clouds of poisonous gases are coming soon to your town.
Or "clean water" ... Most people don't remember that in Jan 2001, the outgoing Clinton gang, excuse me, the "most ethical administration in history," issued a bunch of Executive Orders on such matters as forbidding dirt roads in a large swath of federal lands (a punch in the gut to the lumber industry), and changing the permissible amounts of mercury/arsenic/etc in water from X-parts-per-trillion to X-parts-per-quadrillion, forcing various industries to install extremely expensive and completely needless water filtration equipment over & above the expensive hardware they already had. And this made them even less competitive than their Chinese rivals, where pollutants are probably allowed in X-parts-per-hundreds if they're even regulated at all .... driving more US manufacturing jobs overseas.
As soon as GWB got in and tried to overturn these last-minute Exec Orders on which the ink hadn't even had a chance to dry, the MSM screamed bloody murder that the Evil Republican "selected" Prez was raping America's forests and water quality on behalf of his cronies in various industries.
BOTTOM LINE: The biggest winners resulting from ever-more-stringent Federal "clean air & water" regulations are foreign factories. And the biggest losers are jobless American industrial workers. One of the biggest things Trump can do to honor his promise of bringing manufacturing jobs back is to,
It’s like they think the owl has an address.....the size of Rhode Island.
If you want to save an animal, eat it. Once people put a value on it, they will domesticate it and it will flourish.
NPR was also all wee-wee’d up over this selection. A ringing endorsement for sure!
Yes. If President Trump acts by means of executive order without having Congress pass legislation then the great American restoration will be ephemeral and subject to the whims of the next President.
He needs to embody his changes in legislation rather than administrative regulations from his agencies or executive orders from his own desk.
These figures will provide cover to Republicans running for re-election: When their opponents shed crocodile tears over "children dying" due to their vote, they can counter with something like, "The regulation I voted against would save the life of 1.25 American children per year, at the cost of 16,000 jobs and $75 billion, and the 'side-effects' of those unemployed heads-of-household would indirectly cost the lives of far more children than that, due to social fallout from the economic disruption".
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