Posted on 02/16/2017 4:15:21 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Hundreds of former Environmental Protection Agency officials have signed a letter in protest of Scott Pruitt’s nearing confirmation as EPA Administrator.
The letter, put together by the nonprofit group Environmental Integrity Project, was signed by 773 former EPA staffers, including scientists, engineers and attorneys. The EIP sent the letter to the Senate, where members could confirm Pruitt as early as Friday, the organization said in a statement.
“Pruitt, a close ally of the oil and gas industry, has made a career of suing EPA and attacking the idea of federal action to reduce pollution – while simultaneously failing to enforce environmental laws in his own state and shutting down the Environmental Protection Unit in the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office,” the EIP said in the statement.
As Oklahoma’s attorney general, Pruitt sued the EPA more than a dozen times. He is a climate change denier whose own LinkedIn page refers to himself as “a leading advocate against EPA’s activist agenda.”
In a January confirmation hearing, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) asked Pruitt if “there is any safe level of lead that can be taken into the human body.”
“Senator, that is something I have not reviewed nor know about,” Pruitt replied. (The answer is no).
Ellen Spitalnik was a former EPA attorney who served both Republican and Democratic administrations from 1980 to 2002. She signed the letter in opposition to President Donald Trump’s pick.
“My life’s work is protecting public health and the environment, so I must speak out against this unqualified extremist,” Spitalnik said in a statement. “Pruitt represents what we environmental lawyers call an ‘imminent and substantial endangerment’ to our health and environment. He threatens the very integrity of EPA and must not be allowed to continue shutting down environmental enforcement, disregarding science and putting private interests above public good.”
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Of the 800, how many strut around with semi-automatic weapons?
Well, the good news there is ‘former’.
Dear Scott,
Keep the secretaries
Lose the lawyers and scientists
Make a whole new crop of college and law school grads hopeful
For me, that acts as endorsements.
Awwww....former as in ‘GONERS’ staffers no like the new Boss.
What a shame!
Dang!
Those have been my exact words about Obama for the past 8 years!!!
good we have the names now fire them.
What is it with these people, in State, Intel, seriously they do not work for one man they agree with, they work for the country and who is that President.
DRAIN THE SWAMP!
Dear Scott,
Fire 1/2 of your employees- then get down to the real cutting
Keep the secretaries
Lose the lawyers and scientists
Make a whole new crop of college and law school grads hopeful
“former EPA staffers”
fire the 800 and now you create 800 more jobs LOL
Now I really like him.
Former staffers.
Why, exactly, do former employees believe themselves to have any say in the affairs of their former employer, and even worse, why does the MSM believe it’s important enough to report?
FORMER staffers. ROTFL.
Well, there is the short list for the RIF.
Assume 800 x $80,000/body = $64,000,000
Pretty soon the books will balance.
yea I saw that right after, damn where is an edit button when you need one.
Still half the EPA can go.
Being hated by the right people is a very good thing.
L
Former. LOL!
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