Incompetence Can Be A Good Thing: Of 14 Top EPA Positions, Shitstain Still Hasn't Filled 8
Several key environmental and energy positions have yet to be filled 14 months into the presidency of Donald Trump. Of a total of 14 high-level political positions at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), eight remain empty, including the agency’s deputy administrator and its head of chemical safety. At the Department of Energy (DOE), Trump has yet to fill leadership positions in the department’s renewable energy and advanced technology offices.
But based on the track record of the nominees who have won Senate confirmation so far, Trump’s slow pace in filling these vacancies may not be a bad thing according to one environmental group — the fewer anti-environment, pro-pollution candidates who fill positions in his administration, it says, the better off the nation will be.
“Any day a coal lobbyist or chemical industry shill aren’t holding top jobs in Trump’s EPA should be considered a ‘good day’ by the American people,” Environmental Working Group (EWG) President Ken Cook said Tuesday in an emailed statement to ThinkProgress. EWG is a nonprofit group that focuses on protecting human health and the environment.
Among the confirmed nominees, EPA Scott Pruitt has emerged as the poster child for the Trump political environmental and energy appointee: a pro-industry, anti-environment ideologue. The administration has filled second- and third-tier positions at the EPA, Department of Energy, and related agencies with officials who have similar industry-friendly pedigrees.
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