Tag: Scott Pruitt

I get that there are religious people, and that they often have viewpoints that fly in the teeth of science.  No problem there.  Scott Pruitt, who resigned in disgrace from his position atop the EPA, was apparently motivated in his …

Religion and Science Don’t Always Agree, But It Doesn’t Have To Be This Crazy Read More »

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Earlier this week, a three-person team from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), including its president, its director of Center for Science and Democracy, and its director of their Clean Vehicles Program were, after waiting for over four months, finally granted …

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For those living outside the United States, the “Founding Fathers,” i.e., the men who declared independence from England and wrote the seminal documents that form the underpinnings of our laws, are extremely well respected for their wisdom, not to mention …

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Regarding the resignation of Scott Pruitt as the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, here’s a quote from a particularly eloquent friend:

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There was a discussion here a few weeks ago in which I asserted that Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt was among the top five most hated people in the U.S. 

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Scott Pruitt, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is now embroiled in scandals, forcing him to allocate resources to control the PR damage to his reputation as the ultimate heads-down planet wrecker.  

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I spoke earlier today with a colleague whose renewable energy program in China just got derailed by Trump’s tariffs/nascent trade war; for that reason, he was understandably quite upset with the president. Uncharacteristically, I tried to mollify him about the …

Trump’s Assault on the Environment Won’t Last Read More »

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Here’s a fairly detailed article describing how Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is attacking journalists and stifling the media’s attempts to report on the core actions that the EPA is taking to roll back regulations put …

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I’m lucky enough to have been born a straight while male, adopted as an infant into an affluent family with terrific values that included the importance of education.  As a result of this fortuitous combination, I personally have relatively little …

What’s Happening in the U.S. Coal Industry Is Most Certainly Not Helping the Miners Read More »

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In response to my post yesterday on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s purge of scientists who refuse to toe the line of the fossil fuel industry, frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes: (EPA Administrator) Scott Pruitt, like everyone else in the U.S. …

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