Trump's EPA director to have private meeting with chemical execs at SC resort

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Source: The State

The director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will make a trip to South Carolina this week for a closed-door meeting with industry leaders at a coastal resort.

President Donald Trump’s EPA director, Scott Pruitt, will speak Thursday to a meeting of the American Chemistry Council at a golf resort on Kiawah Island.

This will be Pruitt’s second trip to South Carolina for a private meeting with business leaders. In July, Pruitt was in Orangeburg to discuss rolling back federal wetland protections with energy, construction and agribusiness leaders along with S.C. officials – but not conservation groups.

Pruitt’s latest hosts are a trade association for chemical manufacturers meeting on the S.C. coast.



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[Achilleaze]

1. cozy republican collusion against interests of American people

republicans are truly submissive bootlickers undermining the American people.

[lagomorph777]

2. I guess the SCIF didn't work?

[diva77]

3. When will Congress open an investigation against this corrupt, malevolent thug??

[n2doc]

4. When Democrats take over

Maybe.

[orangecrush]

5. Straight up kleptocracy

We are in it.

[riversedge]

6. Taxpayers are footing the bill...........including security. Why does he need

security???



.............Council spokeswoman Anne Kolton told the Associated Press that Pruitt's speech will not be open to the public or the news media. Admission to the members-only event where Pruitt is speaking ranges between $2,500 and $7,500, depending on sponsorship level.

Rooms at the resort are being offered to conference attendees at a discounted rate of $389 a night, not including taxes and fees.

EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox declined to provide the AP with an estimate of the total cost of the trip. But, he said, “We are staying within the government per diem and, in this instance, that is $135 for lodging.”

Travel and lodging expenses for Pruitt, four aides and his security team will be paid by taxpayers.

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