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News: Trump setting CC skeptic to EPA transition, EPA devastated
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Trump setting CC skeptic to EPA transition, EPA devastated
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ENVIRONMENTALISTS WHO WERE hoping that somehow a Donald Trump presidency wouldn’t be as catastrophic as they feared had those hopes dashed on Friday, when the president-elect announced Myron Ebell as his choice to oversee the transition at the Environmental Protection Agency. Ebell, head of both the right wing think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Cooler Heads Coalition, has spent most of his career tossing out industry-funded nonsense bombs about climate change.
A non-scientist whose funders have included ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute, and coal giant Murray Energy Corporation, Ebell has been a consistent taunter of both scientists and environmentalists. As a talking head on TV news, he has for years offered false balance on climate change in the form of views so far outside of the mainstream as to be downright bizarre. For Ebell, Al Gore is “an extremist” who “lives in a fantasy world,” the Pope’s encyclical on climate change is “diatribe against modern industrial civilization,” and current climate patterns indicate an imminent ice age rather than a warming planet.
Since we were already falling short of our climate goals before the election, and since the potential consequences of inaction may be irreversible, Ebell’s leadership in this realm seems to pose the gravest danger. He has already given much thought to how to get out of the Paris Agreement, the global treaty the U.S. signed in September, which is aimed at holding the increase in global temperature rise below two degrees.
There are several ways a Trump administration could do so. While Secretary of State John Kerry is scrambling to get the treaty implemented before President Obama leaves office, Trump is already signaling that he may try to withdraw from the global agreement in his first year, a move that is within his power and could increase the likelihood that other countries would also shirk their obligations.
Also caught in Trump’s crosshairs is the Clean Power Plan, the rules limiting carbon emissions from coal-burning power plants, which his administration could simply fail to enforce. The administration could also resurrect the Keystone XL pipeline and expand drilling on public land.
But there is much more to the EPA than the protection of the climate. And Ebell also runs a pro-chemical industry front group from the website saferchemicalpolicy.org, where you can read about the “life-enhancing value of chemicals” and the absurd idea that man-made toxic chemicals couldn’t possibly cause cancer because the average human lifespan has increased since 1950.
Indeed, Ebell’s hostility seems to extend to all scientific fact and the entire cause of environmentalism, and he will have a range of opportunities to inflict harm on human health and the environment. Still, certain protections of the earth, water, and land will be harder for him to reverse than others.
Here is a brief overview of some of the damage Trump and Ebell can — and can’t — inflict while they control the EPA.
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After Trump's Election: ‘EPA Employees Were in Tears'
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People who work at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy are having a hard time coping with the election of Donald Trump as president, with many reporting depression and some being advised to take sick leave, according to an article published Friday by Environment and Energy Publishing (E&E).
“U.S. EPA employees were in tears,” the article stated. “Worried Energy Department staffers were offered counseling.
“Some federal employees were so depressed, they took time off,” it stated. “Others might retire early.
“And some employees are in downright panic mode in the aftermath of Donald Trump's victory,” the article said.
John O’Grady, union boss for EPA workers, said people are “upset.”
"People are upset,” said O’Grady, who works in an EPA office in Chicago. “Some people took the day off because they were depressed.”
“The president-elect has vowed to repeal some of the rules they've toiled on for the last eight years during the Obama administration, including the Clean Power Plan rule to cut power plants' greenhouse gas emissions,” the article said.
“Trump has even suggested abolishing the agency entirely, although that would be an uphill political climb,” the article said, adding that the man Trump has picked to head the EPA transition, Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is a “climate change skeptic.”
"If you look at the seven stages of grief, I'm still in denial,” an unnamed career EPA employee said. “I will not look at the news. I will not read the news.”
Another EPA staffer said, "I don't actually know anybody here that was supporting Trump."
“There's been speculation that many of Trump's critics in the federal workforce might opt to leave or retire early,” the article said, but added that this won’t be the first time that people in these agencies have worked under a Republican president.
"We have been through Reagan, got through [George W. Bush],” an unnamed career EPA employee said. “We will get through this.”
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http://cnsnews.com/blog/penny-starr/...ownright-panic
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R.I.P. Humanity. It makes sense that such a vile race would ultimately end up its own downfall.
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This is devastating
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But haven't you heard? He said in an interview that he might not destroy gay marriage so everything he does is okay!!! King Trump show those climate whiners who's boss 
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jesus christ, that pin 
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I'm actually convinced that Pence/the people surrounding Trump are making these decisions. Trump himself has no ****ing clue what to do so he's having others do everything for him.
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Not someone who doesn't care for the environment being in charge of protecting it 
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Originally posted by Scandal & Media
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I'm actually convinced that Pence/the people surrounding Trump are making these decisions. Trump himself has no ****ing clue what to do so he's having others do everything for him. |
This. Idk what some of these ATRLers that are supporting him are thinking.
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Isn't this a bit over dramatic? That chemicals are generally safe it's true...
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Isn't this a bit over dramatic? That chemicals are generally safe it's true...
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why don't you go drink some?
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Isn't this a bit over dramatic? That chemicals are generally safe it's true...
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...no
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Originally posted by MaRy
Isn't this a bit over dramatic? That chemicals are generally safe it's true...
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Ummm no
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why don't you go drink some?
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Lol you sound silly.
Chemicals are not meant to be drunk, are meant to be used in a controlled manner and that's how they are used, this fear mongering is stupid.
Now, climate change is real and that needs to be addressed.
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What chemicals are not safe? Please list lol and list how they are used. You really sound brainwashed.
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Literally this is why I was so hurt that he won... the effects his administration will have on the US and world in general will be soo backwards.. 
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Well folks this is what a protest votes get you....let's make a list of all the scary **** the Repbulicans are gonna make a reality very soon
Reverse Roe vs. Wade
Defund plan parent hood
Defund all efforts to combat climate change
Repeal Obamacare
privatize medicare and medicaid
Repeal Dodd Frank
Lift all regulations on the big banks that caused the financial crisis
what else...
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I really hope that the EPA staffers don't leave or retire. They need to stay and fight - we need you now more than ever.
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Originally posted by MaRy
Lol you sound silly.
Chemicals are not meant to be drunk, are meant to be used in a controlled manner and that's how they are used, this fear mongering is stupid.
Now, climate change is real and that needs to be addressed.
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It was a Clorox joke.
Anyways, this guy is against regulation of the chemicals industry, which is the bad part. It's not "fear-mongering", it's a legitimate concern.
I'm definitely not an expert but you got me to do some research
http://www.eea.europa.eu/soer/synthe...chor-55-anchor
Isn't this common sense? How is this one sentence the most outrageous thing to you in this article?
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