Scott Pruitt Deserves as Much Outrage as Betsy DeVos

[CousinIT]

Later this week, the Senate is expected to hand over control of the Environmental Protection Agency to environmentalists’ worst nightmare. Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general, has spent his career waging legal battles against clean air, climate, and water regulations. He has sued the EPA more than a dozen times, participating in what The New York Times described as “an unprecedented, secretive alliance” with fossil fuel companies to fight Obama-era environmental regulations. He has helped collect millions in political donations from the very industries he will be tasked with regulating. He’s called climate science a “religious belief,” and his official biography even boasts that he’s “a leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda.”

Given all this, liberals ought to be as furious about Pruitt as they were about Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, two other cabinet picks whose expressed ideologies are at odds with agencies they were chosen to head. (DeVos, who is in charge of America’s public education system, is best-known for her support of private school vouchers; Sessions, whose job it is to protect Americans’ civil rights, has spent much of his career disenfranchising voters in the name of non-existent voter fraud.) And yet, in terms of public interest and outrage, Pruitt has not risen to the level of his controversial cabinet colleagues.

https://newrepublic.com/article/140639/scott-pruitt-deserves-much-outrage-betsy-devos

H E L L O?! CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW! - http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/2/2/1629046/-Call-your-senator-Phone-numbers-for-every-office-of-every-U-S-senator

RELATED - What has the US EPA done for you lately? And what will happen if the EPA is abolished and gutted as Charles and David Koch and their special pimp Scott Pruitt desire? Well...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/defendourfuture/the-70s-werent-that-great

[logosoco]

1. K&R

I have already called all my reps. about this one.
If the EPA had not been established when it was, I don't think most of us would be here right now.
The economy and education are very important, but if we screw up the water and air, nothing else is going to matter.

[CousinIT]

2. "... if we screw up the water and air, nothing else is going to matter"

EXACTLY.

Unfortunately corprats like the Kochs and Exxon Mobil only see profits and that exclusively tops their priority list.

[Laxman]

3. The Energy Companies Think....

he makes a great pet. Take a few minutes and watch this, it will make your skin crawl....

https://vimeo.com/201857647

[CousinIT]

4. The Senate will hold a final vote TOMORROW on Scott Pruitt to head the EPA

If you haven't already done so, call your senators NOW ( switchboard: 877-434-0011 or use the list from DailyKOS: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/2/2/1629046/-Call-your-senator-Phone-numbers-for-every-office-of-every-U-S-senator )

Here's what you can say:

"My name is ______ and I'm a constituent. I would like my Senator to oppose Scott Pruitt for EPA Administrator. He's proven time and again that he'll side with polluting corporations over protecting our air, water and climate. Thank you for taking my comment."

PASS THIS ON TO YOUR VARIOUS FRIENDS, FAMILY, PERSONAL NETWORKS.