E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board

[briv1016]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0


WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency has dismissed at least five members of a major scientific review board, the latest signal of what critics call a campaign by the Trump administration to shrink the agency’s regulatory reach by reducing the role of academic research.

A spokesman for the E.P.A. administrator, Scott Pruitt, said he would consider replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate, as part of the wide net it plans to cast. “The administrator believes we should have people on this board who understand the impact of regulations on the regulated community,” said the spokesman, J. P. Freire.

The dismissals on Friday came about six weeks after the House passed a bill aimed at changing the composition of another E.P.A. scientific review board to include more representation from the corporate world.

President Trump has directed Mr. Pruitt to radically remake the E.P.A., pushing for deep cuts in its budget — including a 40 percent reduction for its main scientific branch — and instructing him to roll back major Obama-era regulations on climate change and clean water protection. In recent weeks, the agency has removed some scientific data on climate change from its websites, and Mr. Pruitt has publicly questioned the established science of human-caused climate change.

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At this point what type of "environment" is the EPA protecting? Corporate Environment?

[GliderGuider]

1. Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!!

[PsychoBabble]

3. Sometimes screaming

Seems like the only appropriate response.

[lunasun]

2. Yes that is why Mr Pruitt is there . To protect certain corporate powers from regulations

Trump made this very clear very early in his campaign so it is not surprising
May 2016 one year old article below
http://grist.org/politics/why-is-trump-so-fixated-on-abolishing-the-epa/

[PsychoBabble]

4. Sobering to realize

That 50 years of progress can be eradicated in ... months.

[Calculating]

6. Elections have consequences

People apparently thought it was better to elect a corrupt, greedy, pussygrabbing pos who talks like a 13 year old, than that scary 'email server woman'.

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. Trump - "I will win once I make everything as stupid as I am"

[stevenleser]

7. And I will be drinking bottled water for the next 4 years.

President Trump has directed Mr. Pruitt to radically remake the E.P.A., pushing for deep cuts in its budget — including a 40 percent reduction for its main scientific branch — and instructing him to roll back major Obama-era regulations on climate change and clean water protection

[a kennedy]

9. Thing about bottled water?? NO REGULATIONS AT ALL......so there you have it,

6 of one, half a dozen of the other. I despise these people.

[WePurrsevere]

8. Pfft! Of course he did this. In the world of RepubliCONS...

Worshiping their beloved golden idol trumps science, breathing clean air, drinking clean water, eating healthy foods and having a healthy planet to live on.

They don't care about anything other than $$$money$$$ and helping their rich buddies get/keep more and more $$$money$$$ and to hell with the rest of us who are to them the 'others', the 'lessers', who inhabit this planet with them.

[Vinca]

10. These people are going to do so much damage. It's frightening.

We have to win 2018 and 2020 before it can't be reversed.