{"id":5682,"date":"2017-10-27T11:30:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T18:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5682"},"modified":"2018-03-31T18:16:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T01:16:03","slug":"trump-and-pruitts-epa-nothing-to-see-here-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5682","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Pruitt’s EPA: Nothing To See Here Folks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump’s EPA, with Scott Pruitt at the helm is the planet’s worst nightmare. We’ve commented before about this climate change denier and complete jackass\u00a0here<\/a> and here<\/a>. This corporate lackey has been\u00a0single-handedly destroying all the mechanisms in place to keep the coal, gas, oil, mining, logging and polluting industries from running amok and destroying what’s left of our environment.\u00a0We claim to be a nation of laws. Regulations are laws that corporations have to abide by, just like citizens have to obey civil law.\u00a0Regulations are an essential check and balance to guarantee that corporations don’t go too far like they did in the twentieth century before the creation of the EPA.<\/p>\n

Among the things Pruitt has done recently:<\/p>\n

Pruitt and his EPA attacked an\u00a0AP reporter for reporting about flooded Superfund sites in the Houston area<\/a>. But apparently journalists are supposed to turn a blind eye, like Republicans do, if there’s any environmental problems. Nothing to see here folks!<\/p>\n

Pruitt has gutted water regulations that will allow fracking waste dumping in the Gulf of Mexico<\/a>. The Gulf is still recovering\u00a0from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill and is now dealing with a new 600,000+ gallon oil spill<\/a> that the national press doesn’t seem interested in covering because…you know…stock prices might go down. Nothing to see here folks!<\/p>\n

Pruitt has issued a directive to curb settlements with outside groups, otherwise known as sue and settle<\/a>. Showing that he’s a true corporate lackey, this is another attempt by corporations to limit the harm the public can do. On the finance front, look at this week’s vote by Republicans to make it harder for class actions suits against banks and credit card companies<\/a>. This is because the Republicans care only about their corporate benefactors. They could give a rat’s ass about the consumer protection. Nothing to see here folks!<\/p>\n

Pruitt pulls climate change scientists out of a climate change conference<\/a> because…you know…they might actually show that Pruitt is full of shit. Nothing to see here folks!<\/p>\n

Pruitt announces that the EPA will repeal the Clean Power Plan enacted by President Obama<\/a>. Like other conservative Republicans, they just can’t accept the fact coal is a dying industry and like oil and gas,a thing of the past<\/a>. It would be much better to invest in clean, renewable energy solutions like wind, solar, hydrogen and biofuels. But again, nothing to see here folks!<\/p>\n

Let’s get one thing straight: Scott Pruitt is a lawyer. He knows squat about science.<\/strong> How is it that a lawyer is telling scientists what science is good and what science is bad?<\/strong> He’s got about as much business being head of the EPA as a wolf should be in charge of the hen house. Maybe that’s why he’s increased the\u00a0security detail around him<\/a>. He knows he’s being an asshole and\u00a0he thinks some environmentalist may actually get sick of his shit enough to do something drastic about it. We’ve got a solution Mr. Pruitt: quit being a goddamn dick!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Trump administration EPA chief, non-scientist and friend to polluters everywhere, Scott Pruitt is now attacking the press for reporting potentially dangerous leaks and spills to the general public because the precious energy companies may lose their stock value, which in this country is more important than human lives.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trump’s EPA, with Scott Pruitt at the helm is the planet’s worst nightmare. We’ve commented before about this climate change denier and complete jackass\u00a0here and here. This corporate lackey has been\u00a0single-handedly destroying all the mechanisms in place to keep the coal, gas, oil, mining, logging and polluting industries from running amok and destroying what’s left … Continue reading “Trump and Pruitt’s EPA: Nothing To See Here Folks”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,68,85,3,198,1715],"tags":[74,73,252,69,844,22,20,389,27,420,1116,109,70,1620,1543,4,1621,1499,9,1000,199,999,21,110,98,596,235,296,1500,19,1622,47,48,1623,1624,694,1563],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5682"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5694,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions\/5694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}