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| Scott Pruitt’s Replacement Is Even Worse | |
| 2018-07-06 | |
Wheeler’s ascension, while expected to return stability to the scandal-struck EPA, demonstrates how the administration secured the future of its radical plan to dismantle the nation’s leading public health agency at the behest of the industries it regulates, amid the distractions of Pruitt’s humiliating final months as the agency’s second-shortest-serving administrator in history. “He will be potentially considerably more effective, both because you don’t have the daily drama that you’ve had for the last several months and because Andy knows how the system works,” said Stan Meiburg, a former acting deputy EPA administrator who spent 39 years at the agency. “He could be more effective for the administration in achieving its policy objectives.” Pruitt left behind a considerable legacy of halting critical regulations, reshaping the EPA’s science advisory boards and provoking an exodus of talent from the agency that could take decades to reverse. Yet roughly one-third of the regulatory rollbacks Pruitt attempted were halted by legal challenges ― setbacks widely attributed to his brash style and overeagerness to antagonize environmentalists. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #11 ...and provoking an exodus of talent from the agency that could take decades to reverse. 1) 'Talent'? Now that's funny! 2) Let's hope not! |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-07-06 17:58 |
| #10 Pruitt left behind a considerable legacy of halting critical regulations, reshaping the EPA’s science advisory boards and provoking an exodus of talent from the agency that could take decades to reverse. These are bad things? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-07-06 17:54 |
| #9 Can I call them, or what? It's like you got psychotic powers! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-07-06 16:39 |
| #8 Can I call them, or what? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-07-06 14:09 |
| #7 #2 I would rather O stay in DC. His enablers will do their dirty work supplying for his needs. His disappearance is one of the first signs of his drug dependency. Seeing his efforts so easily erased fills him with searing anger. Drugs will fill the void within himself. He needs to feel the power he once enjoyed. That is all that matters to him. His tale has no happy ending. |
| Posted by: Dale 2018-07-06 13:48 |
| #6 Andrew Wheeler is a former coal and mining lobbyist and a climate denier If that's HuffPoo's description of him, sounds like they got the right guy! |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-07-06 13:40 |
| #5 #4 Target any of my people, run out them out of DC, and I'll replace them with someone even more conservative. And if you don't like that. then I will keep throwing Temporary Appointments in there until 2020 |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-07-06 13:26 |
| #4 I believe Trump is using this as a general strategy: Target any of my people, run out them out of DC, and I'll replace them with someone even more conservative. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2018-07-06 12:47 |
| #3 Congrats! You got rid of the person who was literally Hitler's EPA guy (or some damn literally Hitler thing) and now the EPA is being run by an ex coal lobbyist. Well done lads, lasses and persons of indeterminate gender. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-07-06 12:38 |
| #2 Run Barack Obama"s stalking, agitating ass out of DC. |
| Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2018-07-06 12:29 |
| #1 ...reshaping the EPA’s science advisory boards and provoking an exodus of talent from the agency that could take decades to reverse. Knowing the "science" they have provided over the years I'm willing to accept that risk. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2018-07-06 12:05 |