Every day I fall in love with Donald Trump all over again. Besides Obama himself, the biggest and most corrupt person in the United States was Gina McCarthy. In January, she will be gone and Trumps choice, Oklahoma Attorney General Pruitt, will take her place. McCarthy is famous for putting regulations into effect that either did nothing or so very little for the environment, they were imbecile, while costing taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars.
Scott Pruitt is the biggest nemesis tree huggers have. Already the EDF (Environmental Defense Fund) has reacted to the nomination:
Pruitt, who met with President-elect Donald Trump in New York on Nov. 28, has used his current position to try to block some of the EPA’s most important air-quality rules.
On his own LinkedIn page, he boasts that he “led the charge with repeated notices and subsequent lawsuits against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for their [sic] leadership’s activist agenda.”
Since becoming Oklahoma’s top legal officer in 2011, Pruitt has sued the EPA to stop vital protections for public health – including standards for reducing soot and smog pollution that crosses interstate lines; protections against emissions of mercury, arsenic, acid gases and other toxic pollutants from power plants; and standards to improve air quality in national parks and wilderness areas. Each time he failed.
These common-sense efforts to cut pollution will save lives, prevent dangerous brain-development issues in children, reduce asthma attacks and increase productivity. Yet, Attorney General Pruitt has apparently never seen an EPA rule that didn’t prompt him to run to court to have it blocked.
Not surprisingly, Pruitt has also questioned “the degree and extent of global warming and its connection to the actions of mankind.”
That’s good enough for me. If they hate him, I love him. Another great pick by Donald Trump.