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

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WeAreStarStuff

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Short-tern profits over the long-term well being of the entire fucking planet. I hate everything about this so much. It's painful to think about.
 
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gutter_trash

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Megatron: My plan is to conquer this mud-ball of a planet, and
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Megatron: suck it dry of energy!
 
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WeAreStarStuff said:
Short-tern profits over the long-term well being of the entire fucking planet. I hate everything about this so much. It's painful to think about.
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We'll be fine, we'll be fine, cause snowballs in the courtroom

Know what I think? This is the effect of organized religion ahem, snowballing. People are trained to ignore science if it conflicts with ancient texts. That's the big issue.
 
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Aaronology

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Darryl M R said:
Obligatory post stating that the majority of voters voted against him.

If the planet will be negatively affected let's point fingers at the correct people and never let them live it down.



Caught ya.
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I think winjet81 is right, this is on America. The majority of eligible voters did not vote against Trump. He is the President Elect because a good number of people (particularly on the Left) decided to sit this one out.
 
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SpecX

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There seriously needs to be a max age limit for politicians. These old mother fuckers don't give a shit how bad they leave the planet since it won't impact them and they're leaving plenty of wealth for their kids to move away from the issues.
 
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Maxim726X

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Hey, I'm surprised he even bothered appointing a new leader.

Since it's not going to exist in a few years time, maybe even less.
 
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Darryl M R

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Just in case it is not clear, Trump pick is currently in a lawsuit with the EPA.

How can you pick someone for a position that says "Yea this agency is fake and making stuff up."
 
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CrocMother

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Reminds me of Christine Whitman, GWB's pick for EPA Admin in 2000:
Whitman was appointed by President George W. Bush as Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, taking office on January 31, 2001.[23][24]

In the final weeks of the Clinton administration in January 2001, the administration ratified a new drinking water standard of 0.01 mg/L (10 parts per billion, or ppb) arsenic to take effect in January 2006. The old drinking water standard of 0.05 mg/L (equal to 50 ppb) arsenic had been in effect since 1942, and the EPA, since the late 1980s, had weighed the pros and cons of lowering the maximum contaminant level (MCL) of arsenic.[25] The incoming Bush administration suspended the midnight regulation, but after months of research, the EPA approved the new 10 ppb arsenic standard to take effect in January 2006 as initially planned.[26]

In 2001, the EPA produced a report detailing the expected effects of global warming in each state in the country. President Bush dismissed the report as the work of "the bureaucracy."[27]

Whitman appeared twice in New York City after the September 11 attacks to inform New Yorkers that the toxins released by the attacks posed no threat to their health.[28] On September 18, the EPA released a report in which Whitman said, "Given the scope of the tragedy from last week, I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington, D.C. that their air is safe to breathe and their water is safe to drink." She also said, "The concentrations are such that they don't pose a health hazard...We're going to make sure everybody is safe."[29] A 2003 report by the EPA inspector general determined that the assurance was misleading, because the EPA "did not have sufficient data and analyses" to justify it.[30]

A report in July 2003 by the EPA Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response gave extensive documentation supporting many of the inspector general's conclusions.[31] The report further found that the White House had "convinced EPA to add reassuring statements and delete cautionary ones" by having the National Security Council control EPA communications after the September 11 attacks.[32] In December 2007, legal proceedings began on the responsibility of government officials in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Whitman was among the defendants. The plaintiffs alleged that Whitman was at fault for saying that the downtown New York air was safe in the aftermath of the attacks.[33] In April 2008, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit overruled the district court, holding that as EPA administrator, Whitman could not be held liable for assuring the World Trade Center area residents that the air was safe for breathing after the buildings collapsed. The court ruled that Whitman had based her statement on contradictory information from President Bush. The U.S. Department of Justice had argued that holding the agency liable would establish a risky legal precedent because such holding would make public officials afraid of making public statements.

On June 27, 2003, after having several public conflicts with the Bush administration, Whitman resigned.[34][35]

In an interview in 2007, Whitman stated that Vice President Dick Cheney's insistence on easing air pollution controls, not the personal reasons she cited at the time, led to her resignation.[36] At the time, Cheney pushed the EPA to institute a new rule allowing power plants to make major alterations without installing costly new pollution controls.[36] Whitman stepped down in protest against such demand by the White House, she said.[36] She decided that because she did not agree with the rule, she would not be able to defend it if it were to be challenged in a legal action.[36] The federal court eventually overturned the rule on the ground that it violated the Clean Air Act.[36]

In 2016, Whitman apologized for the first time for her declaration a week after 9/11 that the air in lower Manhattan was safe to breathe. [37]
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jelly

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US will be behind the rest of the world in green energy and will have to pay a hefty sum to catch up if ever. It's backwards, China of all places might leap ahead.

Trump is doing this because it's easy but long term he won't be around to fix it but he will get some brownie points for some short term jobs.
 
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Foffy

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WeAreStarStuff said:
Short-tern profits over the long-term well being of the entire fucking planet. I hate everything about this so much. It's painful to think about.
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Human ego and ignore-ance at work.

Doing all of this for money, a human concept and symbolism confused with objective reality, makes these types of actions even more hilarious and tragic.
 
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Ac30

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LUFTRAUSER said:
Green energy is getting so cheap that it might not matter what regulations are dismantled because using gas will just not be cost competitive.
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I'll bet you a nickel his fossil fuel buddies are gonna railroad legislation through that makes them artificially more expensive. Or because wind turbines kill birdies
 
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_Ryo_

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Idiot. My head hurts and it's gonna get a lot worse in the next four years.

Doesn't Trump and these other idiots realize they're on the same planet and have to face the same consequences?
 
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_Ryo_ said:
Idiot. My head hurts and it's gonna get a lot worse in the next four years.

Doesn't Trump and these other idiots realize they're on the same planet and have to face the same consequences?
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They are old, they don't give a shit.
 
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Coal isn't worth as much as it used to be.
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MHWilliams

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As I've said before. Perfect, enemy of good. We vote for enthusiasm rather than the actual measurable effect the outcome of our vote will have.
 
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Dreez

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GusBus said:
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.
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And with Trump's SC justice nomination, it's as good as checkmate.
 
Trojita

Trojita

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The EPA should be renamed The EDA.

Environmental Destruction Agency.

Nixon is rolling in his grave.
 
cheezcake

cheezcake

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And here in Australia our government just approved construction of one of the largest coal mines the world has ever seen so we can directly try and fuel reliance of developing nations on our exported coal.

Fucking hell.
 
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ezekial45

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Can it get to the point where other nations of the world step in if the U.S. starts going in excess on oil and coal usage and not funding clean-energy.
 
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Ac30

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What is the senate procedure for vetting these picks? Education and the EPA is what I hope the dems expend what little political capital they have on...
 
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Common Knowledge

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It's times like this when I wish there was an afterlife so dumbasses like this would be able to witness how their name gets eviscerated for generations to come because of their actions.

As it is, though, they'll all just die rich and happy without a fuck given for anybody else.
 
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K.Sabot

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wonder how fervent "drain the swamp" trump supporters feel now that they see their candidate is a sheep in wolf's clothing.
 
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SummitAve

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ezekial45 said:
Can it get to the point where other nations of the world step in if the U.S. starts going in excess on oil and coal usage and not funding clean-energy.
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I can't speak for every state, but the electric generating industry has already moved on from coal. It's not coming back. It doesn't make sense financially regardless of the absence of any regulations. The ridiculousness of the fight over the Clean Power Plan is that industry was already meeting or on their way to meeting the regulations voluntarily.
 
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