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Trump to Appoint Global Warming Skeptic to Head EPA
Gateway Pundit ^ | DECEMBER 7, 2016 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 12/07/2016 12:23:29 PM PST by Hojczyk

According to Reuters Donald Trump is appointing a global warming skeptic to head the Environmental Protection Agency.

The far left EDF is not pleased with this development.

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.”

Tries to block every EPA rule he sees

Since becoming Oklahoma’s top legal officer in 2011, Pruitt has sued the EPA to stop vital protections for public health – including standards for reducing soot and smog pollution that crosses interstate lines; protections against emissions of mercury, arsenic, acid gases and other toxic pollutants from power plants; and standards to improve air quality in national parks and wilderness areas. Each time he failed.

These common-sense efforts to cut pollution will save lives, prevent dangerous brain-development issues in children, reduce asthma attacks and increase productivity. Yet, Attorney General Pruitt has apparently never seen an EPA rule that didn’t prompt him to run to court to have it blocked.

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

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


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1 posted on 12/07/2016 12:23:29 PM PST by Hojczyk
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So much winning.


2 posted on 12/07/2016 12:24:38 PM PST by hotsteppa
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To: Hojczyk
BOOM! 🎤🔥🌨
3 posted on 12/07/2016 12:25:29 PM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Hojczyk

Sorry algore :)


4 posted on 12/07/2016 12:25:30 PM PST by ari-freedom (Chicken Little Concerned for Trump people are almost as annoying as NeverTrumpers!)
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To: Hojczyk

Sorry, Algore.


5 posted on 12/07/2016 12:26:02 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (SandyInPeoria just doesn't sound right... yet here I am.)
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To: Hojczyk

6 posted on 12/07/2016 12:26:04 PM PST by CJ Wolf (just a conspiracy theory, no facts behind the above post.)
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To: Hojczyk

Nicely done Mr. Trump.


7 posted on 12/07/2016 12:26:42 PM PST by conservativepoet
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This is my Cheshire Cat smile!!


8 posted on 12/07/2016 12:26:46 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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Attorney General Pruitt has apparently never seen an EPA rule that didn’t prompt him to run to court to have it blocked.

Sounds like my kind of guy. Now if we can just that get corrosive ethanol out of my gasoline . . . .

9 posted on 12/07/2016 12:27:35 PM PST by BipolarBob
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I've been grinning for so long my face hurts.
Best. Election. Ever.
10 posted on 12/07/2016 12:28:03 PM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Hojczyk
NY Times headline about same story:

Donald Trump Picks Scott Pruitt, Ally of Fossil Fuel Industry, to Lead E.P.A.

He's from BIG OIL!

LOL!

11 posted on 12/07/2016 12:28:05 PM PST by PROCON (Onto the Great American Rebirth!)
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It’s happening, folks. It’s really happening!


12 posted on 12/07/2016 12:31:30 PM PST by WKTimpco
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Does anyone really think that any of Trump’s Republican competitors in primaries would have done this? In Your FAce BOLD !!!


13 posted on 12/07/2016 12:33:32 PM PST by WKTimpco
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To: Hojczyk

This may be the biggest win of the week.

The EPA is a corrupt, ineffective and damaging government entity.

Turn it into something useful, or shut it down and let the states handle it.


14 posted on 12/07/2016 12:33:45 PM PST by cicero2k
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O oooooo what is that sound I’m hearing? LHE (Liberal Head Exploding)...what a beautiful sound =)


15 posted on 12/07/2016 12:33:49 PM PST by Patriot Babe
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I like your states idea.


16 posted on 12/07/2016 12:35:01 PM PST by WKTimpco
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To: hotsteppa

“So much winning.” Interesting he appointed Pruitt on Pearl Harbor Day. A torpedo into the S.S. Al Gore.


17 posted on 12/07/2016 12:39:33 PM PST by takbodan (.)
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To: Hojczyk

WINNING!


18 posted on 12/07/2016 12:43:27 PM PST by MAGA2017
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Love it.


19 posted on 12/07/2016 12:44:38 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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So much for those worried about Trump and Ivanka meeting with Fat All Gore yesterday. This is, for Gore, worse than being told “F You!” to his face.


20 posted on 12/07/2016 12:48:24 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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