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  • March 8, 2017 at 11:25 am #66006
    Billy_T
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    E.P.A. Head Stacks Agency With Climate Change Skeptics — By CORAL DAVENPORTMARCH 7, 2017

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    WASHINGTON — Days after the Senate confirmed him as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference and was asked about addressing a group that probably wanted to eliminate his agency.

    “I think it’s justified,” he responded, to cheers. “I think people across the country look at the E.P.A. the way they look at the I.R.S.”

    In the days since, Mr. Pruitt, a former Oklahoma attorney general who built a career out of suing the agency he now leads, has moved to stock the top offices of the agency with like-minded conservatives — many of them skeptics of climate change and all of them intent on rolling back environmental regulations that they see as overly intrusive and harmful to business.

    Mr. Pruitt has drawn heavily from the staff of his friend and fellow Oklahoma Republican, Senator James Inhofe, long known as Congress’s most prominent skeptic of climate science. A former Inhofe chief of staff, Ryan Jackson, will be Mr. Pruitt’s chief of staff. Another former Inhofe staff member, Byron Brown, will serve as Mr. Jackson’s deputy. Andrew Wheeler, a fossil fuel lobbyist and a former Inhofe chief of staff, is a finalist to be Mr. Pruitt’s deputy, although he requires confirmation to the position by the Senate.

    March 8, 2017 at 11:30 am #66007
    Billy_T
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    The inmates now run the asylum. It used to be we could laugh at morons like Inhofe, cuz they were relatively marginalized. Now, under the Trump administration, those crazy right-wing uncles are running the show. The guys who believe every far-right lie they read on Facebook — used to be from listservs or email forwards; now it’s Facebook — head the Executive, with Trump being the craziest uncle of them all.

    The only way out of this is for Trump to go down in flames, impeached, cuz the Chris Steele’s of this world are proven correct, and then for the American people to decide they’ve had enough of the Crazy Tree and want at least sane government again. At least that.

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