For Trumps EPA, the enemy is within
Source: Think Progress
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has made no secret of his preference for industry over environmentalists.
But during a speech at the Heritage Foundation this week, Pruitt hinted at a philosophy that is deeply distrusting not only of environmental advocates, but also of the way environmental research is conducted and how his agency uses science.
Pruitt announced he plans to ban scientists whose work has been funded by EPA grants from advising the agency, and he questioned the scientists’ independence.
“There are dozens and dozens of these folks. Over the years these individuals, as they’ve served in those [advisory] capacities, guess what’s also happened? They’ve received monies through grants, and often substantial monies through grants,” Pruitt said. “That, to me, causes question on the independence and the veracity and the transparency of those recommendations that are coming our way.”
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What a MORON, maybe he and the Murkowski MORON can get together and talk of the by-gone days of renaming her Murkowski Oil Reserve from ANWAR------------and everything will be just fine and dandy on the concept of greed from an industry that has killed and infected millions all over the planet, and is in it self killing off the planet
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