New EPA head had ties with Energy Companies,

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#1 Zaryia
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-pruitt-idUSKBN16129Q

Emails show ties between new EPA head, energy firms.

Christ. GG Earth...GG

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Is this news? I assumed everyone knew Pruitt was a whore for the energy companies....

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And? EPA is a toothless organization that has been dismantled by corporations through both parties.. Not sure who to be more pissed off at, the Republicans being so blatant about it, or the Democrats lying about it while undermining it... I mean look at the last election on one end we had typical Republican who was against climate change science and typical Republican environmental stance.. Than on the opposite side we had a democrat who claimed to be pro environment but was a corporate whore that was pro fracking, pro fossil fuels industry etc etc.. Environmental policy has been a talking point and nothing more for some time now.

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@hillelslovak said:

Is this news? I assumed everyone knew Pruitt was a whore for the energy companies....

What these documents show is many of his arguments were e-mails from oil lobbyists he literally copy-pasted onto government letterhead. We already knew he was an oil whore, now we know he is a lazy one.

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@hillelslovak said:

Is this news? I assumed everyone knew Pruitt was a whore for the energy companies....

It's more factual now.

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@sSubZerOo said:

And? EPA is a toothless organization that has been dismantled by corporations through both parties.. Not sure who to be more pissed off at, the Republicans being so blatant about it, or the Democrats lying about it while undermining it... I mean look at the last election on one end we had typical Republican who was against climate change science and typical Republican environmental stance.. Than on the opposite side we had a democrat who claimed to be pro environment but was a corporate whore that was pro fracking, pro fossil fuels industry etc etc.. Environmental policy has been a talking point and nothing more for some time now.

gotta get that paper

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Since this thread is mostly focusing on US politics it will be moved to the new Political gamers board on Gamespot since anything politics and even religion related is been removed from OT now and being moved to that new board.

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LOL.....kind of expected.

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@judaspete said:
@hillelslovak said:

Is this news? I assumed everyone knew Pruitt was a whore for the energy companies....

What these documents show is many of his arguments were e-mails from oil lobbyists he literally copy-pasted onto government letterhead. We already knew he was an oil whore, now we know he is a lazy one.

This is how a lot of legislation is actually made. I'm not defending it - it sucks - but this is hardly a unique situation.

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@mattbbpl said:
@judaspete said:
@hillelslovak said:

Is this news? I assumed everyone knew Pruitt was a whore for the energy companies....

What these documents show is many of his arguments were e-mails from oil lobbyists he literally copy-pasted onto government letterhead. We already knew he was an oil whore, now we know he is a lazy one.

This is how a lot of legislation is actually made. I'm not defending it - it sucks - but this is hardly a unique situation.

One need only look at ALEC to see how the sausage is made.

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@hillelslovak said:

One need only look at ALEC to see how the sausage is made.

Yeah, that's actually the first one that popped into my mind. It's not the only group that writes legislation for politicians, but it's one of the most well known.