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Donald Trump Picks Scott Pruitt, Ally of Fossil Fuel Industry, to Lead E.P.A.

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WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump has selected Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general and a close ally of the fossil fuel industry, to run the Environmental Protection Agency, a transition official said, signaling Mr. Trump’s determination to dismantle President Obama’s efforts to counter climate change.

Mr. Pruitt, a Republican, has been a key architect of the legal battle against Mr. Obama’s climate change policies, actions that fit with the president-elect’s comments during the campaign. Mr. Trump has criticized the established science of human-caused global warming as a hoax, vowed to “cancel” the Paris accord committing nearly every nation to taking action to fight climate change, and attacked Mr. Obama’s signature global warming policy, the Clean Power Plan, as a “war on coal.”


Mr. Pruitt, 48, who has emerged as a hero to conservative activists, is also one of a number of Republican attorneys general who have formed an alliance with some of the nation’s top energy producers to push back against the Obama regulatory agenda, a 2014 investigation by The New York Times revealed.

At the heart of Mr. Obama’s efforts to tackle climate change are a collection of E.P.A. regulations aimed at forcing power plants to significantly reduce their emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide pollution. It will not be possible for Mr. Trump to unilaterally cancel the rules, which were released under the 1970 Clean Air Act. But it would be possible for a legally experienced E.P.A. chief to substantially weaken, delay or slowly dismantle them.

As Oklahoma’s top law enforcement official, Mr. Pruitt has fought environmental regulations — particularly the climate change rules. Although Mr. Obama’s rules were not completed until 2015, Mr. Pruitt was one of a handful of attorneys general, along with Greg Abbott of Texas, who began planning as early as 2014 for a coordinated legal effort to fight them. That resulted in a 28-state lawsuit against the administration’s rules. A decision on the case is pending in a federal court, but it is widely expected to advance to the Supreme Court.

As Mr. Pruitt has sought to use legal tools to fight environmental regulations on the oil and gas companies that are a major part of his state’s economy, he has also worked with those companies. For example, the 2014 investigation by The Times found that energy lobbyists drafted letters for Mr. Pruitt to send, on state stationery, to the E.P.A., the Interior Department, the Office of Management and Budget and even President Obama, outlining the economic hardship of the environmental rules.

Industries that Mr. Pruitt regulates have also joined him as plaintiffs in court challenges, a departure from the usual role of the state attorney general, who traditionally sues companies to force compliance with state law.

The close ties have paid off for Mr. Pruitt politically: Harold G. Hamm, the chief executive of Continental Energy, a North Dakota oil and gas firm that also works in Oklahoma, was a co-chairman of Mr. Pruitt’s 2013 re-election campaign.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/u...n=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection

Thanks, Ivanka.
 
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I'm telling you the republicans have been taken over by the reptile race and they need earth to be at a crisp 130 degrees.

This is an easier way for the reptile race to get rid of us without firing a single bullet or losing a reptile soldier. It's pretty genius except that we are losing .
 
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Username1198 said:
I'm telling you the republicans have been taken over by the reptile race and they need earth to be at a crisp 130 degrees.

This is an easier way for the reptile race to get rid of us without firing a single bullet or losing a reptile soldier. It's pretty genius except that we are losing .
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That explains Trump's cheeto-like exterior.
 
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iRAWRasaurus

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Cant wait till Trump tells all the nation he is gonna make the best, the cleanest reduction in fossil fuel. Only for him to lie about it, get called out by other nations and start tweeting shit to them...
 
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Hahaha hah

Fuck this bullshit. It's so ridiculous at this point all I can do is laugh.

I never asked (or voted) for this.
 
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Nobody ruins my family vacation but me...and maybe the boy!
Climate change denial should be illegal at this point, what a shitty appointment.
 
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Ponn

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Why do people continue to act outraged and surprised by these picks? What were people expecting from one of the most visible businessmen ever running on a GOP ticket?
 
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DragonSworne said:
That explains Trump's cheeto-like exterior.
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My working theory is that trump wants to become a reptile as well. He is currently undergoing reptile blood transfusions and it is slowly changing his skin color. havent worked out the math yet but I'm into something.

His battle cry of drain the swamp literally means drain the swamp so the reptiles can emerge and destroy.
 
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So how fucked are we? If Trump is in office for 4 years and these asshat fuckknuckles repeal everything that made sense about the environment, how fucked? Do we just lose 4 more years on the earth's life? Or for every year of fuckery from this orange bastard do we lose 100 or 1000 years of earth's life? What if he's in for 8?

I don't understand how you can not look at China, look at the fact that when it rains there, there is actually GRAY ASH IN THE RAINWATER, and not understand that the shit we put in the atmosphere has a fucking impact.

Ugh this is the worst.
 
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Ponn said:
Why do people continue to act outraged and surprised by these picks? What were people expecting from one of the most visible businessmen ever running on a GOP ticket?
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I don't think anyone is surprised, just sad.
 
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Xe4

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Drain the swamp yadda yadda...
Talked with the NYT yadda yadda...
Both sides are the same, yadda yadda...
I can't even.
 
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adj_noun said:
They have to live here too.

That's what makes no sense about any of this.

They have to live here too.
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They're going to be be long dead before they have to deal with this and they know it. It's my generation (Millenials/GenX) that will be the first to really suffer. Fun times ahead!
 
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The Technomancer said:
you dumbass motherfucking idiot foolish fucking dumbfucking idiot fuckwads
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adj_noun said:
They have to live here too.

That's what makes no sense about any of this.

They have to live here too.
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They can afford to move wherever they want when climate change makes certain areas uninhabitable, so they don't give a shit. Or they look at it as "I'll be dead by then, fuck it"
 
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