How Scott Pruitt Is Gutting the EPA on Behalf of the Fossil-Fuel Industry
“The mission statement of the EPA is simple: ‘to protect human health and the environment.’ It says nothing about promoting economic development or energy security or the glory of fossil fuels. But Pruitt has already carried out an impressive list of corporate favors: He rejected the advice of EPA scientists and approved the use of millions of pounds of a toxic pesticide that causes neurological damage in children; in a gift to Big Coal, he delayed tougher ozone air-pollution rules; he plotted to kill Obama’s signature climate accomplishment, the Clean Power Plan, designed to put America on track to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 32 percent by 2030; he rescinded the Clean Water Rule, allowing countless streams and rivers to be exempted from pollution controls; he undermined regulations on the release of mercury, a potent neurotoxin, from power plants and other sources; and he submitted a budget that would wipe out more than a third of the funding for the agency, including cutting money for scientific research in half. […]
“‘If our civilization doesn’t survive, it will be because of this kind of malicious stupidity.'”
Trump’s EPA chief is gutting the agency, defunding science and serving the fossil-fuel industry.
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