Posted on 12/07/2016 12:26:18 PM PST by titanicsuccess
WASHINGTON _ President-elect Donald J. Trump tapped Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt on Wednesday to head the Environmental Protection Agency, a strong signal that the next administration will break from eight years of making new regulations on air and water pollution.
The selection was first reported by Reuters and the New York Times. CNBC and other media outlets have also reported Pruitt will be nominated for the job.
Pruitt, 48, a Republican, has been a harsh critic of the EPA's actions and has been part of lawsuits against the agency.
Pruitt has no background in environmental policy, a change from the two administrators that served in the Obama administration.
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Here General Pruitt, use my knife...
I thought the idea was to remove this useless department..
Being from Oklahoma, he must be well known to Senator Jim Inhofe - probably the biggest opponent of mam-made global warming in the federal government. Perhaps he put him forward for consideration.
Also, being from Oklahoma, oil and gas production (fracking) has big place in the home economy.
EPA isn’t useless unless you abuse it. There are some real $hit holes who will dump poison everywhere.
That would be difficult to do, as EPA’s regulations cover so many aspects of our daily lives. But you start with eliminating Executive orders that they ran with; then have Congress repeal some of EPA regulatory power. That would require that some of their power be moved to Department of the Interior, Commerce Department, Health and Human Services, etc.
Until you can get the current Federal Regulations eliminated by act of Congress, and EPA’s power to regulate eliminated by law, the regulations will still be enforced, and it would dramatically increase the power of the Justice Department. So this is a many-headed creature that must be chopped one head at a time.
The Constitution gives the feds no such authority. Environmental issues are states' issues and if there is a controversy between states then the Supreme Court is authorized to rule on the issue.
I hope this is a good sign that the climate change hysteria will be countered at the highest levels of our government. This policy has been so harmful to the lowest income people in the world, by raising prices, limiting life style options, taking resources away from their desperate needs.
I heard that the US government spends $40 billion per year on climate change research! When you add what businesses and commercial developers are spending, it is likely over $100 billion annually on the climate change “fight”. Can you imagine how much that money would do for the inner cities in the US, or to bring clean water to Third World countries?
Common sense would indicate it may need a director until that happens..Just sayen
The left opposes religious tests for immigration but insists they be mandatory for EPA director.
As attorney general, Pruitt has made no secret of his disdain for the EPA.
His official biography calls him "a leading advocate against the EPA's activist agenda." He has repeatedly challenged the agency's rules in court, and he has even sued the EPA for an allegedly cozy "sue and settle" relationship with environmentalists. One profile noted that Pruitt would sue the federal government "every chance he can get."
Pruitt, who met with Trump Thursday morning at Trump Tower in New York, has been an ardent defender of fossil fuels and the coal industry. The New York Times has reported that one letter to the EPA from Pruitt was ghostwritten by lawyers for Devon Energy, an Oklahoma oil and gas company.
He spent eight years in Oklahoma's Senate before being elected state attorney general in 2010. In that role, he set up a "Federalism Unit" aimed at ferreting out and combating what he viewed as federal overreach.
Conservative columnist George F. Will has called him "one of the Obama administration's most tenacious tormentors," explaining how Pruitt had been fighting against the Affordable Care Act as well as the administration's changes to immigration policy.
The Sierra Club released a statement that called Pruitt "unfit" to lead the EPA. ......LOLOLOLOLOLOL
I think this was a good pick. That guy is going to straighten the EPA out, I think.
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