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The Trump administration has installed signs inside the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) headquarters celebrating “environmental achievements” by the EPA in President Trump’s first year in office.
The “Year of Great Environmental Achievements” poster highlights five actions by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, mostly in rolling back Obama administration policies: his proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan, his proposal to repeal the Clean Water Rule, “cleaning up contaminated sites,” providing “confidence for American families” and providing “certainty” for the economy.
It also has four photos of Trump, three of which also have Pruitt.
The New York Times’s Eric Lipton first publicized the posters on Twitter, and an EPA source confirmed that they are in the building.
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http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/370684-signs-at-epa-building-celebrate-environmental-achievements-by-trump
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Whitefish Energy spent $150k lobbying Congress amid Puerto Rico scrutiny
Whitefish Energy, the tiny energy company that was offered a massive contract to repair Puerto Rico’s power grid after Hurricane Maria, spent $150,000 on lobbying after the deal began to draw scrutiny.
A lobbying report filed Friday shows that the company spent $150,000 in the fourth quarter of 2017 to hire five lobbyists to represent its interests.
OpenSecrets.org first reported on the filing.
The company announced in October it had hired the lobbying firm Foley & Lardner. Among the lobbyists from the firm listed on the disclosure form are two former members of Congress, Dennis Cardoza and Scott Klug. Cardoza in October said he was the main lobbyist on the issue.
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http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/370688-whitefish-energy-spent-150k-lobbying-congress-on-puerto-rico-deal
No one seems to want to run Trump's EPA in California
Perhaps it is unsurprising that the White House still hasn't filled this job: San Francisco is not an inviting place for the Make America Great Again administration.
But the administration's effort to fill one of its most important environmental jobs — chief of the Environmental Protection Agency's headquarters for California and the rest of the Pacific Southwest — keeps going sideways.
On Tuesday, an oil and gas lobbyist from New Mexico who, according to several people inside the Trump administration, was poised to fill the post told The Times it was all a big mistake. He'd be staying put in New Mexico.
"I am not leaving my current role as Executive Director of the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association for any position at EPA or elsewhere within the federal government," said an email from Ryan Flynn.
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http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-epa-california-20180123-story.html
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Burn It All Down: It's Time For Every Last Coward Who Enabled Larry Nassar To Pay For Their Sins
By CHARLES P. PIERCE
January 24, 2018
In 1992, I sat in a courtroom in Milwaukee in which a cannibal murderer named Jeffrey Dahmer was judged to be sane enough to be locked away in a prison for the rest of his life. One of the things we had to sit through was a recitation by one of the primary detectives on the case of Dahmer’s lengthy, handwritten confession, which was taken down immediately after his arrest and which was written in the monotoned cop-ese familiar to anyone who’s covered cops or watched an episode of Law and Order. For example, Dahmer was always “The Suspect.” The court even gave each of us a copy so we could follow along. As the detective droned on, as deadpan as the prose that he was reading, one statement caught me up short.
“The Suspect,” said the detective, “states that it takes about an hour to boil a head.”
That moment, all the more devastating for how simply it was rendered, has come to mind over and over again as Dr. Larry Nassar, who was sentenced on Wednesday to 40-175 years in prison, sat and listened to all the young women he victimized during his time as team physician for USA gymnastics and for Michigan State University. The courthouse is supposed to be the great leveler. It is supposed to be the place where all the monsters are called to final account as fairly as possible. It is supposed to be where flaming vengeance is cooled into steely justice. It is the secular equivalent of the passage from the Gospel of Luke in which Jesus tells the assembled that, “For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.”
God knows, it doesn’t always work out that way in our courthouses. The thumbs on the scales of justice weigh heaviest on the poor and the brown. But it is by god working out in the courtroom in Lansing, Michigan over which Judge Rosemarie Aquilina presides. In that courtroom, for the past few weeks, a remarkable pageant of crime and punishment, of grotesque sin and justified retribution, has been playing out. Larry Nassar’s victims have come to disclose his hidden sins. They have come to bring out into the open that which was concealed in cowardly shadow by a rogue’s gallery of coaches and bureaucrats, all of whom should be driven from polite society by howling mobs. It is not like anything I ever have seen.
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https://www.si.com/olympics/2018/01/24/larry-nassar-sentencing-usa-gymnastics-abuse-victims-michigan-state
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