Hard to see how picking a person knowledgeable regarding the industry could be any worse than picking a Big Government fanatic.
Vast swaths of the public have been conditioned to put their trust in those Big Government fanatics!
If he was a complete commie they’d be good with it.
He beats the two reds who ran the EPA, Carol Browner (International Socialists) and her protege’, Lisa Jackson, a hardcore leftist in her own right.
I just hope that Mr. Dourson uses good science to make decisions unlike many of his predecessors who used “good Marxism” to promote government authoritarianism.
And I say this as someone who has been in the environmental cleanup arena for almost 25 years. Common sense, good science, and some economic balancing of regulations will go a long way to keeping us safe and prosperous (employed) at the same time.