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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,227 posts)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 01:30 PM Dec 2016

Honest question about potential EPA head Scott Pruitt

Is there anything in his background that is even in the least bit remotely concerned with environmental protection? Anything at all? At this point, it doesn't have to rise about the trivial, just show me something.

Did he participate in the office Adopt a Road litter cleanup project?

Does he dutifully throw his empty soda can into the recycling bin as opposed to the garbage?

I'll consider anything at this point.

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Honest question about potential EPA head Scott Pruitt (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2016 OP
Nope, just the opposite. potone Dec 2016 #1
But Ivanka slowly patted her chest and gave a concerned look about climate change! Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2016 #3
You see what I mean? N/T potone Dec 2016 #6
Does he Turbineguy Dec 2016 #2
If he has truck nuts, he's doubly qualified. Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2016 #4
Sorry, so sorry, about his potential national access Aimee in OKC Dec 2016 #5

potone

(1,701 posts)
1. Nope, just the opposite.
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 01:35 PM
Dec 2016

I'm sorry but there is no silver lining here. A word of friendly advice: don't look for anything positive in the Trump appointees. You will only keep getting your heart broken, and that is bad for you. If he appoints anyone who is not a maniac, it will be by mistake.

Aimee in OKC

(158 posts)
5. Sorry, so sorry, about his potential national access
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 01:42 PM
Dec 2016

" Scott Pruitt was elected the Attorney General of Oklahoma in November 2010. . . . Pruitt established Oklahoma’s first federalism unit to combat unwarranted regulation and overreach by the federal government. He is a national leader in the cause to restore the proper balance of power between the states and federal government, ... Pruitt filed the first lawsuit challenging the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, and is a leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda."

https://www.ok.gov/oag/Media/About_the_AG/
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He's allied with energy corporations:
“I was stunned,” NY Times article blasts Oklahoma attorney general, accuses him of ‘secret alliance’
http://kfor.com/2014/12/08/i-was-stunned-ny-times-article-blasts-oklahoma-attorney-general-accuses-him-of-secret-alliance/

Allied along with other GOP AGs:
https://stateimpact.npr.org/oklahoma/2014/12/08/ny-times-oklahomas-scott-pruitt-a-leader-in-secretive-alliance-between-attorneys-general-and-energy-industry/

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