Posted on 11/11/2016 4:45:56 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
Donald Trump's transition team is preparing for the billionaire businessman to take over as commander in chief, they're ruffling a few feathers along the way.
Scientific American reports Trump has selected climate change critic, Myron Ebell, to lead his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition team.
Ebell, who's the director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute, has been described by Newsweek as a fierce opponent of climate change, which the publisher calls “entirely at odds with scientific consensus.”
David Goldston, a policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund, explained that Ebell's disbelief in climate change would “utterly destroy” any environmental advances made by the Obama administration:
“The Competitive Enterprise [Ebell's employer] Institute has done everything it can politically and through litigation to block any forward movement on climate and to try to harass anybody who is trying to get forward movement.”
Trump's controversial pick should come to no surprise, given his harsh stance on climate change:
The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2012
Give me clean, beautiful and healthy air - not the same old climate change (global warming) bullshit! I am tired of hearing this nonsense. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 29, 2014
The backlash Trump's receiving from the left is expected, but some are taking it a step further by petitioning for Ebell to not lead the EPA transition team.
It reads, in part:
“Donald Trump has chosen a leading climate skeptic to head the EPA transition. Do not let a man who denies science in the name of profit lead the nation in environmental protection.”
The petition needs 100,000 signatures in order to get a response from the White House; it has a mere 1,055 so far.
Other Democrats on social media were just as upset:
Fuck, Trump picks Exxon funded climate denier, Myron Ebell, to head EPA transition https://t.co/UAtF2x1F0a — Naadir Jeewa (@randomvariable) November 9, 2016
Myron Ebell, Trump’s pick to lead the EPA, is a lobbyist for fossil fuel industry. Think the system’s rigged? Ask who’s doing the rigging. — Darcy James Argue (@darcyjamesargue) November 10, 2016
So it begins. Trumps transition man for the EPA is @myronebell who is one of the biggest climate skeptics around. Good job America. — Akash Patel (@ab_patel9) November 9, 2016
Senior politics editor of The Huffington Post, Sam Stein, summed up his thoughts on Trump's controversial pick:
FWIW. we have probably lost the battle against climate change tonight — Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) November 9, 2016
Though Newsweek notes Ebell leading the EPA transition team doesn't mean he will definitely have a job within a Trump EPA, his position is undoubtedly a sign of what's to come.
Right now that seems to apply to things that can be navigated by elfin boats....
I have no idea what you just said, an after readin it, I am sure you don’ either
oh what’s a couple of quotations marks
Climate Change, the One True Religion.
Do not let a man who denies science in the name of profit lead the nation in environmental protection.”
SCIENCE WAS TOLD IF YOU DO NOT WALK THE WALK YOU WILL NOT GET FUNDED SO JOIN THE SCAM TRAIN NOW
And the media wonders why they can’t travel with him on Trump One and soon to be Air Force One.
I’m just proposing what I would focus on and what I would eliminate with a reformed EPA. Obviously, Trump is not eliminating the EPA even though many would love to see that. If Trump came out and said it is up to the States to control, the problem with that is that the current State air quality agencies are receiving big budgets from the EPA. The problem over the last several years is that EPA budgets have been decreasing for legitimate air issues because the focus has been placed on funding Climate Change garbage...
the fellow projects like a cineplex
Super! Someone get Trump fitted for a cape.
No, first tear down the EPA. Use the bricks for the wall and say "See? We're recycling."
history will record his election as a miracle
Well yeah, first steps first. Donald wouldn’t be able to keep up if he tried singlehandedly to dismantle every bit of barnaculation. First a sane EPA. Then redistribute its oversight to the states.
Can't remember his name. He went so far as to endorse clean nuclear.
I love it!
Oh my!
Scientific American and the EPA will get the vapors!
How can this be?
;)
I am getting goose bumps from what DJT is already doing. This is delicious every day.Win! Win! Win!
Sanity rules.
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More profound than you know. Thanks.
Lol.
Well there’s only one Donald. Right now this is where he begins, but wouldn’t it be great if the first orders to the EPA was to figure out how to disassemble itself and distribute itself to the states?
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