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Scott Pruitt Resigns as EPA Administrator (cnbc.com)
Scott Pruitt's polarizing tenure as head of the Environmental Protection Agency has come to an end. From a report: President Donald Trump tweeted on Thursday that he has accepted Pruitt's resignation. Trump said that the agency's deputy administrator, Andrew Wheeler, will become the acting head of EPA. The departure follows months of scrutiny that gathered momentum following reports that Pruitt had rented a Capitol Hill condominium linked to an energy lobbyist on favorable terms. The revelation exacerbated concerns about the high cost of Pruitt's travel and security detail and triggered a flood of allegations that Pruitt fostered a culture of workplace retaliation, wasteful spending and self-dealing at EPA. The steady flow of negative news stories prompted multiple government investigators to open several inquiries into Pruitt. His EPA now faces about a dozen probes into its spending, ethics and policy decisions. In a statement, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) said, "Good." Further reading: Judge Orders EPA To Produce Science Behind Pruitt's Climate Claims
And yet, he had the most harmful agenda toward his own agancy of any predecessor.
What's crazy is that it took an ethics scandal over sweetheart deals with a gas industry lobbying firm to get him out
Yeah, I guess you can say at least he's out, but who knows who Trump will replace him with. Probably just another oil and coal industry lapdog.
Victim of its own success: Many of today's anti-EPA fools have never experienced the environment as it was before the EPA.
https://www.google.com/search?q=pre-epa+environment+photos
When you could be sailing off of Los Angeles, and if the wind abruptly switched to an offshore flow you would literally see a wall of yellow coming at you. When living in a large city was equivalent to smoking two packs a day. When a new, properly-running car's tailpipe literally emitted visible smoke and soot... Meanwhile they buy a new car and take for granted the fact that it burns so clean that it actually emits less soot and NOx than it breathed in. When rain in the American northeast once had pH values approaching *2* due to massive uncontrolled sulfur dioxide emissions from burning coal.
But yeah, average guy, keeping believing the liars who tell you the EPA is your enemy.
(One of my theories about the problems with Slashdot is skilled trolls with sock puppets harvesting the mod points I never get. However, at this point I don't think that even Nomad could repair Slashdot.)
You should get more mod points the more you post. But Slashdot's karma system is totally broken, since a single person can have a fit and throw all his mod points into downmodding every post for someone who ticked him off, until that account loses its karma and starts with posts modded at -1 by default. You can't post more/better to try to counteract the 3-5 downmods you'll get per mod period, because accounts with lower karma have strict posting limits.
I abandoned my 20-year-old account about a year ago and only post anon now because of that. Slashdot's absentee admins don't particularly care that their mod system can be exploited for users to attack each other.
Nixon did not represent the GOP as a whole.
He represented the party as a whole a lot better than Goldwater did. Millions of "Rockefeller Republicans" voted for Johnson, and Goldwater lost in an historic landslide.
The difference is that today's Republicnas are the very definition of cowardice
The difference is that Nixon lost the support of the American people, and Republicans were not punished by voters for abandoning him. Trump is very popular with the Republican base, and Republicans that opposed him have been booted by primary voters.
The problem is not the "courage" of the leaders, it is foolishness of the base.