New York Times - E.P.A. and Pruitt update
In last week’s newsletter we summed up why Scott Pruitt, chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, was under fire. (It’s a lot to absorb: ethics scandals over travel, housing, security and staff moves.) Despite the imbroglio, Mr. Pruitt, who has been on a roll in rolling back Obama-era regulations, ostensibly remains in favor with President Trump. A few updates since last week:
One of Mr. Pruitt’s top advisers, Samantha Dravis, resigned.
An internal E.P.A. assessment, obtained by two senators, said the justifications for extra security spending that were provided by Mr. Pruitt’s security team didn’t hold up.
We also published a story about how several E.P.A. officials who raised concerns about Mr. Pruitt’s spending have been reassigned or demoted, or requested new jobs. And another story about how Mr. Pruitt’s regulatory rollbacks, some of which have been hastily implemented, may not hold up in court.
Mr. Trump’s chief of staff, John F. Kelly, advised him to fire Mr. Pruitt, according to two officials. But Mr. Trump later tweeted: “Scott is doing a great job!”
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
President Fucktard Trump and Scott Pruitt, chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, want to destroy the environment. This stuff is from the New York Times.
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