BREAKING: Trump to appoint Oklahoma Attorney General Pruitt as EPA head - transition team

Reuters ^ | 12/7/2016 | Reuters

[MountainWalker]

BREAKING: Trump to appoint Oklahoma Attorney General Pruitt as EPA head - transition team

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

Huh?

[Freemeorkillme]

Don’t know much about him. He’s said to be a fracking fantastic choice in some circles.

[thinden]

hahaha.

posted in comments section from the piece:

waiting for someone to say “oh no. trump’s appointed another general”

[Sacajaweau]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/politics/energy-firms-in-secretive-alliance-with-attorneys-general.html?_r=0

[be-baw]

I see nothing in his background that indicates he would be a good pick to run the EPA.

[Qiviut]

http://scottpruitt.com/meet-scott/

[wiseprince]

Are environmentalist yelling? If they are not then I’m worried since I don’t know anything about this pick

[MountainWalker]

I was hoping for Ebell but still a reassuring pick after the confounding meeting with the holy high priest of global warming the other day.

[rktman]

“Well” of course he’s getting kick backs from the oil companies.

[Enchante]

Great choice. He doesn’t believe in eliminating the EPA (aww, too bad) but he does believe in seriously cutting back and adjusting its activities. Liberals are going to “Bork” the hell out of him in the coming weeks, just watch. Hope the Rs in the Senate hold firm. I don’t think this will be an easy confirmation, because RINO Senators may not like him, but he is an excellent choice:

https://stateimpact.npr.org/oklahoma/2013/10/03/an-insiders-guide-to-oklahoma-attorney-general-scott-pruitts-war-with-the-epa/

[InterceptPoint]

From THIS ARTICLE:

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is reportedly another leading candidate along with Kathleen Hartnett White for the job of administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Pruitt, who met with President-elect Donald Trump in New York on Nov. 28, has used his current position to try to block some of the EPA’s most important air-quality rules.

On his own LinkedIn page, he boasts that he “led the charge with repeated notices and subsequent lawsuits against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for their [sic] leadership’s activist agenda.

... Not surprisingly, Pruitt has also questioned “the degree and extent of global warming and its connection to the actions of mankind.”

[wiseprince]

We have to wait to see if the Al-Gore’s of the world express disappointment. I’ll reserve judgement until then

[Freemeorkillme]

Are environmentalist yelling? If they are not then I’m worried since I don’t know anything about this pick

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You should SEE the bleating of the safe-spacers and the mess on the floor keeps growing. Cleaup, aisle 6.

[wiseprince]

That sounds like a decent start. Waiting to hear more

[Red Steel]

From Wiki. He looks good; even sued the EPA.

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“Career as Attorney General

In 2012, Attorney General Pruitt kept Oklahoma out of the mortgage settlement reached by 49 other states with five national lenders, with Pruitt citing differing philosophies of government.[2]

In 2013, Pruitt brought a lawsuit targeting the Affordable Care Act.[3]

In 2013, Pruitt supported the Oklahoma legislature’s bid to join four other states trying to restrict medical abortions by limiting or banning off-label uses of drugs, via House Bill 1970. after the state Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s ruling that the abortion law was unconstitutional, Pruitt requested that the United States Supreme Court review the case. Pruitt was unhappy with the United States Supreme Court’s rejection of the Oklahoma case.[4][5]

Pruitt was pleased with the decision of the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby in June 2014. Pruitt, an acquaintance of the Green family - the founders of Hobby Lobby, filed a brief with the Supreme Court in support of their position, that the owners of privately held companies need not provide their employees with birth control, if that goes against their beliefs. In a statement, Pruitt noted, “The founders established a Constitution to protect Americans’ religious freedom from an intrusive federal government. Today’s ruling solidifies the principle that our religion is not a silent practice confined to the four walls of a church, but it is an opportunity to live out our faith in the public square.”[6]

In June 2013, Pruitt maintained that the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a provision of DOMA, a federal law that denied federal benefits to homosexual married couples did not affect Oklahoma’s laws on the subject.[7]

Pruitt expressed his dissatisfaction when a federal court ruled that Oklahoma’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage was a violation of the U.S. Constitution.[8]

In October 2014, Pruitt criticized the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear Oklahoma’s appeal in the same-sex marriage case.[9]

On March 6, 2014, Pruitt joined a lawsuit targeting California’s prohibition on the sale of eggs laid by caged hens kept in conditions more restrictive than those approved by California voters. Less than a week later, Pruitt announced that he would investigate the Humane Society of the United States, one of the principal proponents of the California law.[10][11]

On September 9, 2014, in Pruitt v. Burwell, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma ruled against the IRS.[12]

In October 2014, a California judge dismissed the lawsuit, rejecting the arguments of Pruitt and the other attorneys-general concerning California’sProposition 2, a 2008 ballot initiative. Judge Kimberly Mueller ruled that Oklahoma and the other states lacked legal standing to sue on behalf of their residents and that Pruitt and other plaintiffs were representing the interests of egg farmers, rather than “a substantial statement of their populations.” [13][14][15]

In November 2014, after the Oklahoma Supreme Court blocked the enforcement of two abortion-related laws until after their constitutionality was litigated (which could take up to a year or more), Pruitt’s office communicated the Attorney General’s intention to support their implementation and enforcement.[16] [17]

Pruitt has also sued the United States Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of Oklahoma utilities unwilling to take on the burdens of additional regulation of their coal-fired plants, and criticized the agency in a congressional hearing. [18][19] This is one of several lawsuits Pruitt has failed against the EPA.[20]...”

[BeauBo]

From Wikipedia:

“Pruitt has also sued the United States Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of Oklahoma utilities unwilling to take on the burdens of additional regulation of their coal-fired plants, and criticized the agency in a congressional hearing. This is one of several lawsuits Pruitt has failed against the EPA.”

Aside from this, he seems distinguished mostly as a social conservative.

[Sacajaweau]

http://www.theokie.com/general-pruitt-keynotes-at-alec-annual-meeting/

[ObozoMustGo2012]

[I see nothing in his background that indicates he would be a good pick to run the EPA.]

If that’s the case then he IS a good pick... to run it INTO THE GROUND!

[mrsmith]

Myron Ebell was reported to be leading the transition.
What happened to him?