Thanks, wheeler looks good. I hope he is a little more PR adept then Pruitt was.
Looks OK to me.
Buckeye (Cincinnati native who graduated from Case Western Reserve University - very good school - in Cleveland) former lobbyist for a coal company who helped oppose Obama policies. In other words, the EPA is probably just as if not more OK in his hands.
Wheeler seems completely fine.
Wheeler sounds pretty good to me esp. after having two Marxists (Carol Browner - International Socialists and her protege’, Lisa Jackson run roughshod over American industry during the Clinton/Obama regimes), plus the unnerving Gina McCarthy at the latter part of Obama’s reign.
There are a lot of legitimate concerns about how the coal industry functions but some of them can be ameliorated such as the coal ash storage/recycling issue. Mountain top clearing is trickier. Carbon Dioxide storage might be one partial solution to “green house gases” if technically feasible and affordable.
However, “carbon dioxide” is a natural product of life so if the left environmental wackos want to do something helpful to reduce the “human footprints” on the environment, they can kill themselves and let their bodies be recycled for plants and animals to utilize.
I’ve been in the field of environmental cleanup for almost 25 years and I’ve seen really shitty, stupid laws trying to be enforced, and good laws being enforced, and everything in between.
The problem is federal overreach under the CAA, CWA, etc. to the point that your backyard swimming pool could come (and attempts have been made to) come under the Clean Water Act because that water eventually reaches rivers and the sea.
Common sense was lost on good, pragmatic and sensible environmental regulations a long time ago. The EPA needs someone who can go through it (Pruitt tried), to clean out the deadwood of outdated, impractical and economically devastating (i.e. overly expensive) solutions.
American technology is coming along in a number of areas for cleaning up the environment that really didn’t even exist 10 years ago. Let those in that business compete with the best innovations and techniques to help solve these problems.
Damned few environmentalists every invented anything use (but hattips to those who did, using good old American science, hard work, and a pragmatic approach to the subject).
Let us all wish Mr. Wheeler good luck in his new position. We need someone who understands what the issues are.
(And if you ever need an example of EPA stupidity to remind you about their incompetence, just say Gold King Mining disaster).