Trumps nominee to head EPA has opposed the Chesapeake Bay cleanup

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Source: Washington Post

Trumps nominee to head EPA has opposed the Chesapeake Bay cleanup

By Darryl Fears January 16 at 6:54 PM

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Oklahoma is 1,400 miles from the entrance of the Chesapeake Bay at Havre de Grace, Md., halfway across the country. But the distance didnt matter to Oklahomas attorney general, Scott Pruitt, after the Environmental Protection Agency drew up a plan to clean the polluted bay. He tried to stop it.

Pruitt was one of 21 state attorneys general who signed an amicus brief* opposing the largest cleanup of a water body in U.S. history. The brief supported a federal lawsuit filed by the American Farm Bureau Federation and the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau that claimed the EPA usurped the power of states in the watershed to regulate pollution that flows into the bay from cities and farms.

Pruitt is now President-elect Donald Trumps nominee to run the EPA, the agency that Pruitt has railed against, suing it more than a half-dozen times over regulations on clean water and clean air that he disagreed with.

{Trump names Scott Pruitt to head the EPA}**

As he prepares to face a Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday, environmental groups that fought to clean the bay decades ago, when its rockfish disappeared and crab stocks plummeted, are worried. And advocates for clean water in Oklahoma say they should be, given Pruitts record while he was responsible for waterways there.

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/from-alaska-to-florida-attorneys-general-join-fight-to-end-chesapeake-bay-cleanup/2014/02/05/d88a426c-8e7f-11e3-b46a-5a3d0d2130da_story.html

** https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/07/trump-names-scott-pruitt-oklahoma-attorney-general-suing-epa-on-climate-change-to-head-the-epa/

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trumps-nominee-to-head-epa-has-opposed-the-chesapeake-bay-cleanup/2017/01/16/a881d408-d90a-11e6-b8b2-cb5164beba6b_story.html

[Farmgirl1961]

1. Now is a good time to believe in Karma

As all of these people that Trump is surrounding himself with, and including himself, are pure evil.

[rpannier]

3. Now is the time to hope for a selective meteor

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. What does karma do to evil people?

I mean, really...do they get some special karma backlash?

Maybe at least if he is in charge of the EPA, he will quit filing lawsuits against the EPA.

Not that that makes him a good choice, because, of course, he is the worst possible choice. Which is why Shitler chose him.

[dalton99a]

5. Evil attracts evil.

[elleng]

2. GRRRR!

[BadgerMom]

6. Dear heavens!

What the heck is wrong with these people? FFS!

[sarah FAILIN]

7. It's a distraction technique

He's trying to keep us looking around to see what is getting screwed over at every agency so we miss the important stuff he doesn't want us to see.

[Tanuki]

8. Please contact your lawmakers today and let them know that you want them

to vote against the appointment of this anti-science climate skeptic who has repeatedly shown hostility to the mission of the EPA. Contact them TODAY...the 1-day hearing is on Wednesday. A simple Google search will give you plenty of info to bolster your argument. Thanks for this OP!

[Bayard]

9. Better or Worse?

Is someone like this better or worse than Trump abolishing the EPA altogether? Wasn't that one of his proclamations during the campaign?