Posted on 01/18/2017 5:45:42 AM PST by Olog-hai
When President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency first took office as Oklahoma’s attorney general, he disbanded the unit responsible for protecting the state’s natural resources.
Instead, Scott Pruitt reassigned his staff to focus on filing lawsuits against the federal agency he’s now selected to lead.
Records also show that Pruitt, a Republican who faces a Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday, failed to push a legal challenge initiated by his predecessor to protect Oklahoma’s rivers from pollution caused by animal waste, after receiving tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from individuals connected to the poultry industry.
“It’s not just that he disbanded the unit and moved those people around. He created a whole new unit specifically to fight the EPA, among other things,” said Mark Derichsweiler, who retired last year as a water-quality engineer at Oklahoma’s Department of Environmental Quality. …
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And the problem here?
“Pruitt, a Republican who faces a Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday, failed to push a legal challenge initiated by his predecessor to protect Oklahoma’s rivers from pollution caused by animal waste, after receiving tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from individuals connected to the poultry industry.”
Well, it was a chicken**** lawsuit.
Sounds like spot-on, not spotty.
LOL! Spotty by whose judgement? Looks good to go to a whole lot of folks. The assaults continue unabated.
(Is ‘whose’ correct here? Early out here on PST)
Only problem is the fakenews media trying to fake us out yet again.
“Spotty” = “don’t buy the liberal / enviro-Commie BS 100%”
Spotty = “does not agree with ‘professional’ activists”
“This is mindboggling. It is almost as if Trump was serious when he said he will dismantle the EPA.” AP and the rest of the boys on the short bus.
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I have friends and relatives, who know Mr. Pruitt, personally.
They believe that he will be one of President’s Trump’s most important and effective cabinet members.
His job/task will be to shred/destroy the Green Mafia that controls so much of America now.
The rabid greens may be more dangerous to America and us than the Jihadists in America.
During an early morning visit to a local restaurant I had my first glimpse at TV in awhile. I saw ads trying to take out the EPA choice. In the main CNN broadcast it had similar leftist lies disguised as news. This reminded me once again why I don’t even own a TV now and have no desire to get one. Who needs the aggravation of being lied to all the time?
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