Cenk Uygur
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Trump Puts Fossil Fuel Shill In Charge Of EPA
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December 8, 2016
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8:24Now PlayingFossil fuel shill Scott Pruitt HATES the EPA. He has sued the agency multiple times. If you can’t beat ‘em, join em. Or in this case, get put in charge of ‘em. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Scott Pruitt, the attorney general of the oil and gas-intensive state of Oklahoma, to head the Environmental Protection Agency, a move signaling an assault on President Obama’s climate change and environmental legacy.
Pruitt has spent much of his energy as attorney general fighting the very agency he is being nominated to lead.
He is the third of Trump’s appointees who have key philosophical differences with the missions of the agencies they have been tapped to run. Ben Carson, named to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development, has expressed a deep aversion to the social safety net programs and fair housing initiatives that have been central to that agency’s activities. Betsy DeVos, named education secretary, has a passion for private school vouchers that critics say undercut the public school systems at the core of the government’s mission.
The news about the choice of Pruitt was confirmed by a transition official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity before the official announcement.
Pruitt, who has written that the debate on climate change is “far from settled,” joined a coalition of state attorneys general in suing the agency’s Clean Power Plan, the principal Obama-era policy aimed at reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector. He has also sued, with fellow state attorneys general, over the EPA’s recently announced regulations seeking to curtail the emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, from the oil and gas sector.”*
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