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Trump Picks Scott Pruitt Ally of Fossil Fuel Industry to Lead E.P.A. (No more dems to Trump Tower!) [View all]
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/us/politics/scott-pruitt-epa-trump.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0David Axelrod @davidaxelrod
Whatever @algore said, @realDonaldTrump apparently didn't get it.
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump has selected Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general and a close ally of the fossil fuel industry, to run the Environmental Protection Agency, a transition official said, signaling Mr. Trump’s determination to dismantle President Obama’s efforts to counter climate change.
Mr. Pruitt, a Republican, has been a key architect of the legal battle against Mr. Obama’s climate change policies, actions that fit with the president-elect’s comments during the campaign. Mr. Trump has criticized the established science of human-caused global warming as a hoax, vowed to “cancel” the Paris accord committing nearly every nation to taking action to fight climate change, and attacked Mr. Obama’s signature global warming policy, the Clean Power Plan, as a “war on coal.”
Scott Pruitt at Trump Tower:
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