Pruitt insists that the EPA only uses data that is public

It is truly crazy how the same people, that are demanding transparency and honesty in other threads, are saying just the opposite here. How can anybody justify the EPA passing measures, that may cost billions and billions, without showing their justifications?

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Scott Pruitt actually has more of a grip on what science is than the fake scientists of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

I really like this guy. In fact he's my favorite in Trump's admin.
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Pruitt believes in creation science.
 
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Scott Pruitt Is Gutting the EPA Because He Thinks It’s God’s Plan


Scott Pruitt may be at the center of another Trump administration flight scandal over the skyrocketing costs of his first-class flights, but recently he's been more ... Pruitt has alluded to his religion in EPA speeches and interviews before, but in an interview last week with the conservative Christian Broadcasting ...

https://www.motherjones.com/environ...ting-the-epa-because-he-thinks-its-gods-plan/
 
Havana Moon said:
Give me strength, I couldn't care less if he believed that giant unicorns orbited Uranus. I will judge him by his actions in the job he is being paid to do.

https://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?p=2248465


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Pruitt is an idiot.. Trumps' choices have all been loons with no experience in whatever field .. whether that's education , the EPA, the VA.. the opioid crisis etc......
 
kudzu said:
Pruitt is an idiot.. Trumps' choices have all been loons with no experience in whatever field .. whether that's education , the EPA, the VA.. the opioid crisis etc......
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I disagree with you 100%, Scott Pruitt is exactly what the EPA has needed for a long time.

Why does the EPA need a $715 million police force, a $170 million PR Machine, a nearly $1 billion employment agency for seniors, and a $1.2 billion in-house law firm?

During last week’s Democratic presidential primary debate, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said the most important adversary of the United States was “climate change.”The EPA is ready for the fight in ways taxpayers haven’t imagined.

Recently, our organization, American Transparency, published our OpenTheBooks Oversight Report – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. We captured and analyzed $110 billion worth of EPA contracts (FY2000-2014), grants (FY2000-2014), salaries (FY2007-2014) and bonuses (FY2007-2014).

EPA Criminal Enforcement Program spent $715 million since 2006 - including an EPA disclosed $6.5 million on military-style weapons - detailed in a recent oversight report by our organization, OpenTheBooks.com

We weren't surprised to discover a large, powerful and aggressive governmental organization. From its birth by the Executive Order of President Richard Nixon, the EPA has staked out an adversarial position vs. American business to protect the environment.

What we didn’t expect to learn is that if the EPA knocks on your door, its enforcers may come equipped with the latest in weaponry and technology.

Since 2006, the EPA Criminal Enforcement Program spent approximately $715 million fighting ‘enviro-crime.’With 200 Special Agents, the EPA also spent millions of dollars on military-style weaponry.

For example: $2.1 million purchased guns and ammo up to 300MM - the majority of these expenditures were on weapons “up to 30MM” ($1.73 million).


Other checkbook entries included body armor, camouflage and deceptive equipment, unmanned aircraft, night vision, radar equipment, tactical sets, kits, and outfits, transport vehicles passenger and troop, and $6.6 million in joint “policing” projects with Homeland Security. EPA also purchased shotgun ammunition, Bushmaster rifles, mobile GPS units, puncture-protective gloves, amphibious assault ships, and much more.

In addition to the EPA police force, a division of nearly 200 “Public Affairs Officers” were paid salaries of $145 million since 2007. Seven out of 10 PR staffers also received performance bonuses. But even that wasn’t enough. The EPA also spent $26 million with outside PR consulting firms since 2000.

Yet, the EPA’s PR spending was dwarfed by the lawyers. The EPA loves lawyers. Nearly $1.2 billion in salary flowed to more than 1,000 lawyers since 2007. In fact, more money was spent on “General Attorneys” than on chemists, general health scientists, ecologists, chemists, microbiologists, geologists, hydrologists, toxicologists, biologists, physical scientists, and health physicists combined.


When the EPA is sued, the Department of Justice defends the EPA in court. So, why does the EPA need 1,020 lawyers? One reason is to advance the EPA’s anti-capitalist Environmental Justice movement and it’s $32 million in grants. Environmental Justice essentially declares that corporations are bad because the pollution from capitalism, through the effects of climate change, disproportionally harms minorities and the poor.

While the EPA self-righteously promotes Environmental Justice, the agency isn’t treating its senior workforce with economic justice. Nearly $1 billion was spent on the Senior Environmental Employment Program (SEE) to hire retired or unemployed seniors to use their life experience to better the environment. Under EPA directives, a senior civil engineer in Iowa is paid $12.87 per hour and many seniors make as little as $7.87 per hour.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2015/11/30/epas-budget-deniers/
 
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Havana Moon said:
It is truly crazy how the same people, that are demanding transparency and honesty in other threads, are saying just the opposite here. How can anybody justify the EPA passing measures, that may cost billions and billions, without showing their justifications?

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Pruitt wouldn't know... The recycling of POPs will save BILLIONS for industry.
 
Havana Moon said:
I disagree with you 100%, Scott Pruitt is exactly what the EPA has needed for a long time.

Why does the EPA need a $715 million police force, a $170 million PR Machine, a nearly $1 billion employment agency for seniors, and a $1.2 billion in-house law firm?

During last week’s Democratic presidential primary debate, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said the most important adversary of the United States was “climate change.”The EPA is ready for the fight in ways taxpayers haven’t imagined.

Recently, our organization, American Transparency, published our OpenTheBooks Oversight Report – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. We captured and analyzed $110 billion worth of EPA contracts (FY2000-2014), grants (FY2000-2014), salaries (FY2007-2014) and bonuses (FY2007-2014).

EPA Criminal Enforcement Program spent $715 million since 2006 - including an EPA disclosed $6.5 million on military-style weapons - detailed in a recent oversight report by our organization, OpenTheBooks.com

We weren't surprised to discover a large, powerful and aggressive governmental organization. From its birth by the Executive Order of President Richard Nixon, the EPA has staked out an adversarial position vs. American business to protect the environment.

What we didn’t expect to learn is that if the EPA knocks on your door, its enforcers may come equipped with the latest in weaponry and technology.

Since 2006, the EPA Criminal Enforcement Program spent approximately $715 million fighting ‘enviro-crime.’With 200 Special Agents, the EPA also spent millions of dollars on military-style weaponry.

For example: $2.1 million purchased guns and ammo up to 300MM - the majority of these expenditures were on weapons “up to 30MM” ($1.73 million).
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They are needed to deal with idiots like Richard Scoot who's defiance caused horrific algae blooms all over Florida.. and then, he wanted the Feds to pay to clean up his mess.
 
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt dismissed evolution as an unproven theory, lamented that “minority religions” were pushing Christianity out of “the public square” and advocated amending the Constitution to ban abortion, prohibit same-sex marriage and protect the Pledge of ...

https://www.politico.com/story/2018...evolution-theory-abortion-gay-marriage-433284

BTW, studies indicate there are fewer abortions when they are legal.
 
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt dismissed evolution as an unproven theory, lamented that “minority religions” were pushing Christianity out of “the public square” and advocated amending the Constitution to ban abortion, prohibit same-sex marriage and protect the Pledge of ...

https://www.politico.com/story/2018...evolution-theory-abortion-gay-marriage-433284

BTW, studies indicate there are fewer abortions when they are legal.
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Which has absolutely fuck all to do with the EPA. But you just thought you'd throw that in as you can't argue logically about his measures to cut out hideous over spending and empire building.


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Havana Moon said:
Which has absolutely fuck all to do with the EPA. But you just thought you'd throw that in as you can't argue logically about his measures to cut out hideous over spending and empire building.


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New technologies are coming out that will preserve the environment AND save billions for industry.. Pruitt will fight all of them ..
 
kudzu said:
They have made millions ... Every time they butt heads with the EPA.. and wouldn't have it any other way.
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Which again, has nothing to do with Pruitt's valiant attempt to reorganise the shambolic, sclerotic EPA.

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