Posted on 11/17/2017 4:22:12 PM PST by Twotone
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is a man who gets things done. Despite resistance from within his own agency and an environment lobby bent on stopping him, he’s doing his part to drain the swamp and return government to the people. He’s bringing what citizens demand of a federal agency: Transparency and reasoned, fact-based decision-making resting on sound statutory footing.
Take the contentious issue of global warming. Pruitt called for a reasoned debate. But his critics mocked the suggestion, claiming it would be an outrage to place “fringe” views on an even platform with “established, peer-reviewed research.” But it is tyrants and mobs — not reasonable policymakers intent on serving the public — who ridicule debate and discussion. It undercuts arbitrary rule and fear, their chief weapons.
Consider Pruitt’s recent directive prohibiting scientists from serving on one of the agency’s three main advisory panels while they are receiving EPA grant funding. It applies to the three main advisory boards at the EPA: The Science Advisory Board, the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC), and the Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC).
Pruitt made the case that the directive is necessary to ensure the agency’s research programs are informed by independent experts with no financial ties to the programs. As he noted, advisory board members have received $77 million in grant money over the past three years — half of the total amount allotted. “When we have members of those committees that received tens of millions of dollars in grants at the same time that they are advising this agency on rulemaking, that is not good,” Pruitt said. His directive is prudent, and it is the type of common-sense safeguard that citizens expect in a self-governed republic.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Pruitt for President!
Or make him head of every agency on a rolling basis, so he can do the clean-up work others are failing to get done.
Great idea...then President :-)
Send him to DOJ next.
Maybe he could find time to have a little lunch or something with Jeff Sessions. Give him a few pointers on swamp draining.
I don’t think that you can “peer review” research that is based, not on empirical data, but on mathematical models. Garbage in, garbage out....
Finally, someone is getting the arrogant and corrupt EPA under control.
When the history is written a century from now, people will be amazed that the scam/delusion of Anthropogenic Global Warming went on for so long. But then, trillions of dollars for those promoting the scam were at stake. They were betting on control over the entire economy of the planet!
Love Pruitt.
Remember the time he came out at a press conference and very quickly dispatch a bunch of tough press questions?
Pruitt is the real deal!
I like it - so many directions to send him. Maybe he can be cloned.
Someone needs to break up the collusion between the drug companies and FDA approval process - boy that would raise some hackles.
The focus at NASA and NOAA should be “sound science, not political science.” NASA and other agencies should emulate Pruitt's approach to separate science advisors from funded research participants.
This action will avoid conflicts of interest and vested interests.
If only Jeff Sessions had the gumption and drive of Scott Pruitt.
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