From E&E Legal:
“We are delighted with President-elect Trump’s selection of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Mr. Pruitt has led the charge in recent years to confront head on the enormous federal regulatory overreach proposed by the EPA as epitomized by the Clean Power Plan and Waters of the U.S. rule. As a litigator, he also understands how environmental fringe groups like the Sierra Club and the NRDC – who are bankrolled by renewable energy tycoons like Tom Steyer and George Soros – use the state and federal court systems to essentially create new laws through such schemes as ‘sue & settle.’
It is also reassuring that President-Elect Trump has chosen someone from the state ranks, particularly a state so important to energy production, since it’s the states and their citizens who are suffering the most by this Administration’s out-of-control EPA.
We encourage Mr. Pruitt to gear up for battle since draining the EPA swamp will be met with the utmost resistance from an entrenched and well-funded green industrial complex. Finally, we strongly encourage him to add a deputy administrator to his team who has significant EPA experience, who shares the President’s vision, and can protect that vision from a hostile agency staff.”
Craig Richardson
E&E Legal President
UPDATE: as I was writing this, I got this press release:
CLCV Statement on Pruitt’s Nomination for EPA Administrator
Oakland, CA – In response to news reports that Trump will nominate Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as EPA Administrator, California League of Conservation Voters CEO Sarah Rose issued the following statement:
“The naming of a climate denier like Scott Pruitt to head the EPA is nothing less than an effort to undermine the agency’s core mission to safeguard our environment. On the campaign trail President-elect Trump vowed to break America’s commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement, to open our public lands to drilling, and to dismantle the EPA. By nominating Scott Pruitt he’s making it clear he intends to follow through on those promises.
“Pruitt has sued the EPA, has fought environmental protections enacted by President Obama, and has denied the science of climate change itself. He represents the very threats the EPA should protect against, not be headed by. The California League of Conservation Voters calls on our Senators to reject this wrong-headed nomination which puts our families and communities at risk.
“California has a unique role to play. We are the sixth largest economy in the world. The decisions we make here, the policies we create, and how we respond to Trump’s attacks on our environmental protections will determine the pace of progress these next four years. We must organize to defend our hard-fought victories because every Californian deserves clean air to breathe and clean water to drink.”
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It’s like Pearl Harbor Day for them, like somebody made a sneak attack.. Some reactions on Twitter:
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CLC(not)V Press Release
Edited for Accuracy Version —
“The naming of a
climate d e n i e rscience realist like Scott Pruitt to head the EPA is nothing less than an effort tounderminerestore the agency’s core mission to safeguard our environment.On the campaign trail President-elect Trump vowed to break
America’sObama’s unilateral commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement,to open our public lands to drilling (Ed. Yay!),
and to dismantle the EPA (Ed. Let’s hope he does! — Any engineer will tell you: when something is that messed up, it’s better to just wipe it out and start over).
By nominating Scott Pruitt he’s making it clear he intends to follow through on those promises.
“Pruitt has sued the EPA, has fought pseudo-environmental protections enacted by President Obama, and has
denied the science of climate changeadvocated for observation-based, bona fide, science { }.He represents the very
threatsgoals { }only an anti-science, corruptEPA {w}ould {oppose and should}notbeheaded{Ed. Note to self: reassign that writer to Classifieds} guided by.The California League of
ConservationShills for Enviroprofiteers Voters calls on our Senators torejectloudly whine about thiswrong-headedIvanpah solar “farm” and windmill-threatening nomination which puts our families and communitiesat riskin a great position to become wealthier.“California has
a uniquealmost no role to play. We are fast becoming thesixth largestthe lowest growth economy in the world. The decisions we make here, the policies we create, and how we respond to Trump’s attacks on our environmental protections will determine the pace of progress these next four years.We must organize to defend our hard-fought victories for Big Solar and Big Wind because every Californian should have to keep those industries afloat with their taxes and power rate surcharges
deserves clean air to breathe and clean water to drink.”Great edit job, Janice.
Of course I would edit even further this part:
“California has
a uniquealmost no role to play. We are fast becomingthe sixth largest..the lowest growth economy in the worldMexico.Heh.
Yeah, maybe trump should wall off california, too!
No need, Moonbeam has already said he would.
LOL!
Janice can you sneak this in….and get the most Federal aid of any other state
Editor’s Correction:
We neglected to include this in our story last Wednesday, December 7, 2016:
With thanks to our alert reader, Mr. Latitude.
(sorry if I guessed wrong about the “Mister” — shrug #(:j) )
suggestion for california–pack your bags and leave. Course, you will still need to purchase your power from places where sanity still reigns–eh.
Cor!
And he’s not even moved into the White House yet!
There is good evidence that the EPA no longer serves the needs of the American people but those of the green activist groups. Recall that Laurence Kulp was replaced as head of NAPAP when green groups did not like the findings of the first NAPAP report that there was no evidence that acid rain was killing trees in Vermont or acidifying lakes in NY.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2857442
An “Extreme Unprecedented” disturbance in the farce. Millions of green heads crying out in terror as they realized they may have to work for a living, instead of pontificate to the unwashed masses.
When those green heads explode there is no grey matter. Just red pulp, and black or white seeds.
It must have been that meeting with Al Gore that put him over the top. I think he must have seen right through Al Gore.
I had forgotten the meeting until just now. I wonder if Mr. Gore had suggested anyone for the post? This might leave a mark (forehead palm, etc.).
He was doubtless try to propose himself for the job !
That’s when Trump realised : “it’s worse than we thought”.
..I wonder if Gore made him nauseous
I suspect Trump simply laughed at Al during their entire meeting.
Is there a post of court jester?
J. Philip Peterson December 7, 2016 at 3:20 pm says,
“It must have been that meeting with Al Gore that put him over the top. I think he must have seen right through Al Gore.”
That was one HECK of a Gore Effect (: Usually it just snows.
Resist we much!
Re: “hostile agency staff”**
Mr. Pruitt should replace the entire staff attorney department with science realists.
They can then use the “not a team” player method (and also a science facts achievement test, e.g., “Q: What evidence is there that human CO2 emissions cause climate on earth to shift significantly? Answer: D. None.”) to get rid of all those non-cooperating staff.
— Verbal
— Written 1
— Written 2/interview
You’re fired.
Reason: 1) Not a team player. and/or 2) failed Basic Science Certification written test — twice.
*********************************
**There is no re-training such blindly-devoted-to-AGW (or, worse, corrupted by bribes from the likes of Soros and Ivanpah make-a-buck hu$tler$) people. It would take far too long and cost the taxpayer far too much (with a fairly low probability of success, also).
Janice,
You should assemble EVERYONE’s CVs from this site and forward them to Pruitt. Let us take over the EPA or shut it down!
Mr. Westhaver: The brain power and science and engineering ability and knowledge of the WUWT Science Giants, not to mention their superb integrity, intellectual honesty, and moral courage, would be TERRIFIC at running anything and especially anything that has to do with science.
And I KNOW that most of our fine scientists would work for their costs alone (i.e., enough to simply live on while employed there). For the love of science (and, for many, the love of the United States of America). The best quality for the lowest cost. GREAT IDEA!
Heh. Now, if I can just find Pruitt’s number…… I just know he gave it to me …. (lol).
EXCEPT Anthony’s – the rules would require him to leave off running WUWT. (But there are “Civilian Advisory Committees.”)
and maybe the BLM also???
If Pruitt needs a list of well qualified climate scientists, there’s a pretty good one at Desmog.org.
Great idea Paul! I want to be the token representative from Canada and be assigned to the Phoenix office for the Nov-April period (-30C here this week). I would be happy to be the liaison for Canada, or just to make the coffee in the morning.
Trump on climate change:
“This very expensive global warming bullshit has got to stop.” -Donald Trump
“Surprise? 1970’s global cooling alarmists were pushing the same no-growth liberal agenda as today’s global warming.” -Donald Trump
“I call it weather. You know, the weather changes.” -Donald Trump
“Obama’s speech on climate change was scary. It will lower our standard of living and raise costs of fuel & food for everyone.” -Donald Trump
“Gore wants us to [take extreme actions because of ‘global warming’], when China and other countries couldn’t care less. It would make us totally non-competitive in the manufacturing world, and China, Japan and India are laughing at America’s stupidity.” -Donald Trump
“With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore.” -Donald Trump
“The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” -Donald Trump
“Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax! [I prefer ‘scam’]” -Donald Trump
“Remember Cap-and-Trade? Obama outright admitted that his plan to tax businesses on carbon emissions that exceeded his arbitrary cap would drive energy prices sky high. ” -Donald Trump
Trump at NH rally utilizes the conservative crowd to dismiss a leftist questioner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyulquUwi1Q
LOVE it! Thanks for such a fine compilation, Mr. Simpson!
Finally. We have a truth-teller headed for the Whitehouse.
YAY!!! Oh, I am SO HAPPY!!!
#(:))
#(:))
#(:))
Janice you should watch Carlson Tucker on FOX at 4 pm (ET, later I believe at 10 or 11 pm PST) He had a californian “lady” on whining about this appointment. I hurt myself laughing. But in a way truly sad that all that money these people wasted on going to “school” left them with NOTHING. She was asked by Tucker what her degree was that is when the fun really started.It is worth seeing it again for me!
Tucker is on at 7:00 Eastern time, 4 in the West.
Best show on TV…he merrily deconstructs liberal BS.
The money quote:
https://www.facebook.com/FoxNews/videos/10154863730331336/
Oh what the heck…here is the full interview.
But, important to note…he does this to these people for a full hour, one after the other, five nights a week.
By last week I was wondering when they would stop coming on his show, but it appears that they never will, because they never learn!
How can this be?
It is because they actually think they are right!
Tucker tears them up. His lefty guests have that “deer in the headlights” look after Tucker finishes with them.
Her last sentence re hate speech was her unloading on Steve Bannon. … Talk about hate speech ( and thanks guys for finding it , I just rewatched it and I still am in disbelieve by her statements. She is a true “acolyte”
Lol that’s just beautiful. A Californian liberal talking about the evils of hate speech while calling anyone with different views to her own Hitler, white supremacist, anti-semite. And she won’t even hear a whisper from the irony alarm.
China, Japan and India are laughing at America’s stupidity.
You know…..this is something nuanced that Trump would not know if he were just a casual reader of global warming…China and India yes…..Japan has been very quiet about it
I don’t think some people give Trump enough credit for his general intellect and for his understanding of CAGW.
Latitude, I’m sure Hillary had that “nuanced” thing down pat. Additionally, Obama is always nuanced, and usually wrong.
Nuance can keep you from making timely decisions. Untimely decisions are always wrong.
“China, Japan and India are laughing at America’s stupidity.”
He who raffs rast, raffs best!
Love those Trump quotes! I laughed out loud after every one.
Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax! [I prefer ‘scam’]
Yes, a hoax is sort of whimsical, but a scam? – Well, we all know what that is.
Thank you President elect Trump.
Thank you Anthony for you effort to provide the facts and expose the CAGW false agenda
A very eminent UK Construction and Engineering Contracts lawyer was once asked in one of his Seminars on Contract Law and Claims: “what was the most important thing to remember and apply in Court or Arbitration for a successful claim?”. His answer was quite simple, he said: “there are 3 things you must always have and present: the first is true factual detailed contemporaneous records, the second is more of such records, and the third is even more records!”
With Trump in power, and assisted by such appointed leaders such as Pruitt, it is hoped that armed with such records and hard evidence from trusted independent experts on CAGW/Climate Change matters, the whole Western World’s electorates can be persuaded that they have been paying and wasting £billions of their taxpayer monies on policies based on the control of the supposed pollutant, CO2. They can demonstrate with such records and not theories and authority opinions that these policies were never required and in effect, have been environmentally ineffective, unnecessary and a massive waste of money which, for years, has been funding the West’s industrial and infrastructure inefficiencies and decline – driving down our competitiveness in an ever increasing and competitive global market against improving competitors and lowering working peoples wages and standards of living.
The self interest of the electorates would then cause a democratic uprising, to destroy at the ballot box the self interest and power of elitist sections of our countries with their own agendas funded by our money.
Mister Macawber! Something — has turned up! #(:))
(for non Charles Dickens readers, that is an allusion to his Mr. Macawber in the novel David Copperfield)
@ur momisugly macawber, I just bloody hope it is not to late for many elderly in the EU with the coming cold snap as it did in 1963. The whole scenario is setting itself up for a repeat. Go the Weatherbell for Joe Bastardi’s last weekly” Saturday Summary” update (free, I think it was dec 3, linkhttp://www.weatherbell.com/#premium click on weekly update )
Wheeee. Fasten your seat belts, this is the 1,000 horse power carnival ride we have been waiting for!
Allow me to correct a couple of Sarah Rose’s typos:
“Pruitt has sued the EPA, has fought environmental [restrictions to economic growth] enacted by President Obama, and has denied the [politics] of climate change itself.
There now it is a true statement.
+1
Janice shame! +1776 is much better and much more true.
Anyone who thinks this appointment is a bad idea, I ask them; “don’t you want energy independence from middle eastern countries?”
They will say we should just stop using all that energy. Luddites with smartphones and wifi connected computers.
I thought DOE was created in the early 70’s to do just that, free the USA from foreign energy??? Maybe we’ll finally get it right.
Edited for Accuracy Version —
“The naming of a
climate d ee n 1 e rscience realist like Scott Pruitt to head the EPA is nothing less than an effort tounderminerestore the agency’s core mission to safeguard our environment.On the campaign trail President-elect Trump vowed to break
America’sObama’s unilateral commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement,to open our public lands to drilling (Ed. Yay!),
and to dismantle the EPA (Ed. Let’s hope he does! — Any engineer will tell you: when something is that messed up, it’s better to just wipe it out and start over).
By nominating Scott Pruitt he’s making it clear he intends to follow through on those promises.
“Pruitt has sued the EPA, has fought pseudo-environmental protections enacted by President Obama, and has
denied the science of climate changeadvocated for observation-based, bona fide, science { }.He represents the very
threatsgoals { }only an anti-science, corruptEPA {w}ould {oppose and should}notbeheaded{Ed. Note to self: reassign that writer to Classifieds} guided by.The California League of
ConservationShills for Enviroprofiteers Voters calls on our Senators torejectloudly whine about thiswrong-headedIvanpah solar “farm” and windmill-threatening nomination which puts our families and communitiesat riskin a great position to become wealthier.“California has
a uniquealmost no role to play. We are fast becoming thesixth largestthe lowest growth economy in the world. The decisions we make here, the policies we create, and how we respond to Trump’s attacks on our environmental protections will determine the pace of progress these next four years.We must organize to defend our hard-fought victories for Big Solar and Big Wind because every Californian should have to keep those industries afloat with their taxes and power rate surcharges
deserves clean air to breathe and clean water to drink.”This (just above) is a duplicate. Please delete. Thanks!
Worth reading twice. 🙂
Aw, Andy. That was so KIND of you. Thanks! 🙂
He’s not even been sworn in yet and he’s got the buggers cornered already.
Whoopee !
Congratulations to Scott Pruitt. He has an enormous job ahead of him. But if Trump supports him, then he will get it done.
The confirmation hearings ought to be fun. 🙂
Not for Dems. Remember Harry Reid when Senate Leader pushed through the Senate ‘the nuclear option’ (voiding cloture on filibuster of appointments [previously 60 votes] except for Supremes] in 2013. Now that comes back to haunt Dems big time. And, best part is they know it is coming. And so does Trump. They lived by their rule change after 200 years . Now they will die by it. Constitution Article 1 section 5.2. Rather explicit and clear.
ristvan, it may be that Dems hope for “Bork-ing” and “Thomas-ing” of President The Donald’s appointees.
I would hope that Senator Cruz trots out all the EPA climate shenanigans.
The Democrats spoke openly of going full nuclear option in the new senate term.
I think it is only right that the Republicans should do exactly that, and get rid of the filibuster rule altogether.
They were going to do it, why should not we?
If they do, it will mean that a simple majority is all that is needed for anything in the senate.
I say go full nuclear, and ram through everything!
Yes, the Democrats changed the rules and now they have to live with them. Republican Senators will be the threat to Trump’s nominees, if there is a threat.
The confirmation hearings ought to be fun. 🙂
No sh!t!
You can’t expect those that live and thrive in the swamp to be happy about the draining of the swamp.
The schadenfreude is strong with this one.
Yeah, he goes from suing the EPA, to running the EPA.
In many ways, the Green Movement is still living in the Middle Ages and OK AG Pruitt does not conform to the Holy Faith. Hence, as the nominee to head the EPA, he needs to burn at the stake:
I love Monty Python.
Will Sessions and Pruitt go after NY AG Schneiderman for his violation of civil liberties?
I would leave that up to Rep. Lamar Smith of the Congessional Science oversight committee. The new others have bigger swamp draining missions.
Can a fat baby fart?
The EPA has no jurisdiction there.
Awesome. If all Trump can do is stop the epa, he will be a huge improvement and America will Prosper.
U.S. Steel says now that Trump is in charge and is going to reform the economy, they are thinking about adding back 10,000 jobs!
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/07/us-steel-wants-to-accelerate-investments-bring-back-jobs-ceo-says.html
The man isn’t even president yet! On a roll, baby! And just getting started.
The article states that the 10K number is for the whole industry, and it’s also contingent on Trump actually making the changes he’s been talking about.
Shit! This new one wants proof! Gavin, Gavin, Gav, Gav, Ga, Ga…..
gag
Proof you say? Previously it was spoof. Make up your mind while the world turns, turns, turns
I suspect we may be entering a period of cooling for GISS data…
Delicious
Oh, for someone to create an update of the infamous “10:10” commercials, showing AGW fanatics’ heads exploding on this news:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS5CH-Xc0co&w=560&h=315%5D
Did the people who made this video really think it was going to promote their cause? And why didn’t the reverse happen; this video promoted as evidence of the the insane ideological zeolotry and intolerance of the AGW movement?
No. Warmists are the ones who want their enemies and their children to explode. Skeptics merely want their enemies exposed, shamed and removed from power.
The difference is in the 10:10, they are blowing up kids, while now, they are blowing their own heads.
Come to think of it, there is not much difference. They just like to blow people up.
The NYTimes accuses republican ag’s…. Is there a finer example of the saying, “if you want to know what lowdown sh*t progs are up to, listen to what they accuse the other side of doing”?
The NY Times did one thing right: they called Pruit a “climate dissenter.” That’s better than the AP’s “doubter.” It’s even better than “contrarian.”