Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Get me rewrite UPDATE. Scott Pruitt: Americans deserve an expose of my deep ties to fossil-fuel industry



Reported in EPA chief wants scientists to debate climate on TV.  (Reuters, 7/11/2017)



7/8/2017 update, "To Ken Paxton, from Scott Pruitt.  Christmas celebrated early and often at EPA", starts here.


Reported in Counseled by Industry, Not Staff, E.P.A. Chief Is Off to a Blazing Start.  (The New York Times, 7/1/2017)


7/7/2017 update, "Scott Pruitt likes the old way of doing business:  Make toxic messes, then dither about cleaning them up", starts here.

Yup, back to basics.



Reported in Counseled by Industry, Not Staff, E.P.A. Chief Is Off to a Blazing Start.  (The New York Times, 7/1/2017)

Read more about the back to basics agenda here.


7/5/2017 update, "Scott Pruitt and Republican Attorneys General do bidding of fossil fuel bigwigs", starts here.


Republican Attorneys General Association

Related reading:
Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General.   (The New York Times, 12/6/2014)
The letter to the Environmental Protection Agency from Attorney General Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma carried a blunt accusation: Federal regulators were grossly overestimating the amount of air pollution caused by energy companies drilling new natural gas wells in his state. 
But Mr. Pruitt left out one critical point. The three-page letter was written by lawyers for Devon Energy, one of Oklahoma’s biggest oil and gas companies, and was delivered to him by Devon’s chief of lobbying.
The two dozen nonprofit groups and Senate committee members defending Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump’s nominee for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, have at least two things in common. 
Like Pruitt, they’re climate science deniers. And, like Pruitt, most of them are funded by Charles and David Koch, the billionaire brothers who own the coal, oil and gas conglomerate Koch Industries. 


7/4/2017 update,  EPA Director Scott Pruitt, one man band in the Trump cabinet", starts here.

(emphasis added)

Reported in Counseled by Industry, Not Staff, E.P.A. Chief Is Off to a Blazing Start.  (The New York Times, 7/1/2017)

Related reading:
Thousands of emails detail EPA head’s close ties to fossil fuel industry.  (Washington Post 2/22/2017)
Scott Pruit, fossil fuel industry automaton.  The emails highlight an often-chummy relationship between Pruitt’s office and Devon Energy, a major oil and gas exploration and production company based in Oklahoma City. The correspondence makes clear that top officials at the company met often with Pruitt or people who worked for him. Devon representatives also helped draft — and redraft — letters for Pruitt to sign and send to federal officials in an effort to stave off new regulations.

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7/3/2017 update, "EPA Director Scott Pruitt's death wish for the planet as a to-do list", starts here.


Reported in Counseled by Industry, Not Staff, E.P.A. Chief Is Off to a Blazing Start.  (The New York Times, 7/1/2017)


Original 5/21/2017 post, "Meet Scott Pruitt, top fox in EPA henhouse", starts here.


Reported in How Rollbacks at Scott Pruitt’s E.P.A. Are a Boon to Oil and Gas.  (The New York Times, 5/20/2017)


Photo credit:  Condition Critical
Italicized text:  LinkedIn


Original 5/9/2017 post, "EPA storyteller J. P. Freire in so many words:  Trump administration believes fox should be in charge of henhouse", starts here.

Photo credit:  LinkedIn


Freire worked as Director of Communications for U.S. Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT) from November  2014 to March 2017.   The opening sentence of his description of this experience:
I lead all story-telling and communications efforts both in-state and nationally for the most senior Republican member of the U.S. Senate.

Bingo! 

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