An Enemy of the E.P.A. to Head It (NYT Negative Endorsement Résumé Enhancer)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/opinion/an-enemy-of-the-epa-to-head-it.html?_r=0 ^ | 12/7/2016 | The Editorial Board

[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.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

A ringing endorsement!!
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Exactly what I was thinking. Thank you NYT for confirming that I was right to be delighted by Trump’s selection.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

He’ll bring fundamental change to EPA.
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Most anti-American agency ever created.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

And stop introducing them into farming/livestock country.
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I bought a farm several years ago and one of its two ponds had a breach in its bank and water coming in to it streamed right back out through the breach. Someone told me I might be able to get some financial help from the county to have the pond bank restored. But when I made the mistake of calling I was told by some breathless bureaucrat that I would have to get approval of the EPA because there might be some rare flora and fauna that would be adversely affected by restoring the pond. I thanked them for sharing that and found a contractor who had no qualms about fixing it without any permits or inspections. Word of advice: ALWAYS do whatever you can to prevent government involvement in any aspect of your life.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

NPR was also all wee-wee’d up over this selection. A ringing endorsement for sure!
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Hopefully President Trump will terminate the government’s funding to this anti-American propaganda media.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

So Gore has failed yet again LOL.
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Algore has been living in the shadows ever since he was accused by that hotel employee of molesting her. Or was it a him?

[phoneman08]

I don’t recall that story.

I just know that it’s a good investment to buy a snow shovel whenever he shows up to a globull warming conference.

But yeah, he does kind of strike me as a perv.

[Chickensoup]

What a wonderful guy!

I would love to work in the department that dismantles the appliances oversight. I will bring my crowbar and dismantle it myself.

[nobamanomore]

It would be great if he came in the first day and announced his one point plan. I’m shutting it down completely, you can all go home, and I resign immediately

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Any discussions about his appointment need to include accountability for the mine spill. The EPA has proven itself incapable of self control as nothing was done. The EPA as the Government oversight needs to be held to a higher standard as opposed to no standard.