Posted on 11/02/2017 1:00:39 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Environmental Protection Agency dismissed its top science counselors without telling them in advance, two of them told HuffPost on Wednesday.
The head of the Science Advisory Board, Peter Thorne, and the head of the Board of Scientific Counselors, Deborah Swackhamer, said they learned from news reporters that they had been replaced.
“This is really a destruction of the scientific integrity at EPA,” said Thorne, a University of Iowa professor of occupational and environmental health who has served as the head of the Science Advisory Board since 2015. “It’s disheartening to see.”
Swackhamer went public five months ago with accusations that Pruitt’s chief of staff pressured her to alter her congressional testimony to play down the EPA’s dismissal of scientific advisers.
“I was stunned that he was pushing me to ‘correct’ something in my testimony,” Swackhamer told The New York Times in June. “I was factual, and he was not. I felt bullied.”
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I pink slipped MYSELF a couple or more times. One job I walked out on twice—the last time, I slammed the door so hard it damaged the frame....& he never said another word about it.
As a bookkeeper/accounting person for small businesses, I learned to drop a client who was doing something spooky that could back splash onto me.
One client tried to intimidate me about having to testify in his/her divorce case. I was required to testify anyway. When I was on the stand I tore apart his ‘records’ that he tried to create after she left the business. He eventually lost the entire property in a foreclosure-—and when he appealed that—he got the SAME judge as his divorce!!! God does have a sense of humor !!!
"Top EPA officials get Swackhamered"...............LOL!
EPA has long far overreached the intended purpose and become a tool of radical enviro-whackos.
The EPA was never great. It shouldn't even exist - more Big Government run amuck.
“Anyone has seen the world’s smallest violin?”
No, but I have a picture of its carrying case: =
The MSM keeps quoting professors as if they know anything about the real world.
MAGA MAGA MAGA!!!
Take that, you angry insane leftards still raging about DJT beating dumb@ss Kankles!
I’m having a particularly good schadenfreude day today. :0)
It shoots through mine tailing pools...
Seems like that ship sailed long ago, around the time that "Richard Windsor" silenced the only EPA scientist who was willing to call bullshit on the CO2 data. He was subsequently forced into retirement, IIRC. I believe he has a blog out there somewhere.
Cut the budgets of all agencies 80% across the board.
Ok, killjoy, you’re right. But it still sounds good.
Having been in HR for several years, it’s common that the higher the position, the less notice you’re given. At that level, your boss, an HR rep, and big Security dude show up in your office/cubicle with a couple of file boxes. Within 15 minutes, it’s like you never were there.
They wanted notice? So they could wreak havoc with files, data, etc.? For scientists, they aren’t that bright.
Sometimes armed security come to your office and escort you out after killing all your pass codes, collecting keys and IDs.
It can be worse than that. My wife, as a manager had to fire a guy who she warned over almost a year to do his work. She had the security guards bring him to her office where she told him he was fired and his belongings would be brought to him at the front door. He went ballistic, screaming and fighting with the security guards. The SFPD were called, and the police dragged him out kicking and screaming in full view of other employees. If security can't handle, armed police can.
He sued the company but lost the case, as my wife had carefully documented everything for a year including warnings to shape up, and was working with HR the whole time.
Liberals think they own the government and the country.
They resent it when events slap them upside the head with reality.
We see that attitude every day in the hate they express for President Trump.
How dare he assume the presidency against their wishes!
How dare he rescind Barack Obama’s illegal subsidies to the healtcare insurance companies!
How dare he appoint an EPA chief who tries to rein in the excesses of the EPA!
“..scientific integrity at EPA...” As a professor I am sure he understands the meaning of oxymoronic.
Private Sector doesn’t tell you either...
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