Pruitt as EPA Pick
Item: When President-elect Donald Trump announced Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as his pick to run the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Los Angeles Times expressed its displeasure in an article for December 7 entitled “Trump names climate change skeptic and oil industry ally to lead the EPA.” Evan Halper wrote:
Pruitt disputes the mainstream scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet at an alarming rate and that world governments must act aggressively to limit emissions if they are to avoid catastrophic consequences. He has also fought EPA anti-pollution rules.
The Times quoted Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group — a Washington research and advocacy organization — as saying, “Pruitt could be the most hostile EPA administrator toward clean air and safe drinking water in history.” Halper also lamented the fact that — under a Pruitt EPA — environmental rules “would vary considerably from state to state.” Noting that in states “like California that enthusiastically embrace the fight against climate change and have clean air and water rules that exceed federal standards, the fallout may be marginal,” he went on to predict:
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