EPA's Pruitt and staff to attend chemical industry meeting at luxury resort next week
Source: Washington Post
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt will travel next week to address the American Chemistry Councils board meeting at a high-end resort on South Carolinas Kiawah Island, his spokesman confirmed Thursday.
Pruitt, who has traveled across the country to meet with industry groups regulated by the EPA, is scheduled to address the board during a session on Nov. 9, according to the events official schedule. The administrator plans to bring eight EPA staffers to the event. The contingent includes his chief of staff, a senior adviser on state and regional affairs, a press aide, a public engagement official, a security detail of three and an advance person.
The EPA on Thursday said the government is paying for the groups expenses.
This is part of Administrator Pruitts back-to-basics tour as he continues to meet with as many stakeholders as possible, EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox said in a statement. Administering the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), amended by the 2016 Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act, is one of EPAs core functions.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/11/02/epas-pruitt-and-staff-to-attend-meeting-at-luxury-resort-next-week
Nice gig Pruitt has going on here.
Spiranthes
(17 posts)This guy needs to be criminally prosecuted. People have no idea the number of lives that will be severely impacted by the destruction of USEPA.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)eom
lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)I never thought I'd ever be living in it though...
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)I guess we can just rename the EPA, the EDA, the Environmental Degradation Agency.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/epa-chief-says-wind-tax-credits-should-be-eliminated/
On Monday night, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt told a meeting of the Kentucky Farm Bureau that the federal government should end tax credits for the wind industry. Although the EPA doesnt have control over tax incentives for renewable energy, the agency has considerable authority to hamper similar programs that boost renewablesmost recently seen in Pruitts efforts to repeal the Clean Power Planand his comments reflect how energy policy is being approached in the nations environmental bureau.
"Im not in Congress, and the state of Oklahoma has similar incentives, [but] I would do away with these incentives that we give to the wind industry. I would let them stand on their own and compete against coal and natural gas and other sources," Pruitt told the audience, with senator Mitch McConnell at his side. (Senate majority leader McConnell, notably, does have sway over federal tax incentives.)
Pruitt added that he believed the US government should, let utility companies make real-time market decisions on those kinds of things as opposed to being propped up with tax incentives and other types of credits that go through the federal and state level.
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In his dismissal of wind tax credits, Pruitt also made no mention of the $2 billion in federal tax incentives that are given to fossil fuel producers every year. A recent study found that at the current price of $50 a barrel for oil, nearly half of the discovered-but-not-yet-developed crude oil fields in the US are profitable where they otherwise would not be.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)sciency stuff - they've been banned for doing that. It will just basics, how to funnel money from lobbyists into GOP coffers.