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highplainsdem

(49,122 posts)
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 08:39 PM Jan 2018

Ex-EPA chief: Agency will need '20 to 30' years to recover from Pruitt

Source: The Hill

A former administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) predicted that it could take the agency “20 to 30” years to regain its full capability after the Trump administration cut its budget and repealed many of its regulations.

Carol Browner, who served as EPA administrator from 1993 to 2001, during the Clinton administration, told The Huffington Post that the agency would have to start from the beginning if the Trump administration is able to successfully repeal the Obama-era Clean Power Plan.

“Under Pruitt, what they’re doing is conscientiously tearing the place down,” Browner said, referring to current EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.

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Other former EPA administrators also told The Huffington Post that the agency had been damaged under Pruitt.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/369934-ex-epa-administrator-epa-will-need-20-to-30-years-to-recover-from

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Ex-EPA chief: Agency will need '20 to 30' years to recover from Pruitt (Original Post) highplainsdem Jan 2018 OP
Kick dalton99a Jan 2018 #1
There is a special place in hell for Pruitt. democratisphere Jan 2018 #2
Their success Turbineguy Jan 2018 #3
OH jazzcat23 Jan 2018 #4
It's going to take that long for the entire country BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #5
And there is essentially no difference between Republicans and Democrats. honest.abe Jan 2018 #6
The thing is... Magoo48 Jan 2018 #7
We don't have 30 years NickB79 Jan 2018 #8
Ha! He thinks that humans have another 20-30 years left. progressoid Jan 2018 #9

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
2. There is a special place in hell for Pruitt.
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 08:42 PM
Jan 2018

In the meantime, I hope he is scorned, jeered and sneered to death.

jazzcat23

(176 posts)
4. OH
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 11:42 PM
Jan 2018

dear god, I will be dead by then! However, my grandkids will still be here, hopefully they can do something. Their parents are a lost cause, they have been sucked into the fox-not-news cyclone that inhabits every small town across America....
I wasn't fortunate to be able to raise my daughter or she would be a progressive instead of a regressive, oh, I mean, republicon..

BigmanPigman

(51,660 posts)
5. It's going to take that long for the entire country
Sun Jan 21, 2018, 01:18 AM
Jan 2018

to recover from the damage done to this country and planet during the past year by this fucking moron and his admin. with the support of the greedy GOP sociopaths. We MUST win the midterms!

honest.abe

(8,689 posts)
6. And there is essentially no difference between Republicans and Democrats.
Sun Jan 21, 2018, 02:58 AM
Jan 2018

So say the fools who refused to back Hillary.

Magoo48

(4,723 posts)
7. The thing is...
Sun Jan 21, 2018, 09:08 AM
Jan 2018

Without a livable environment, and our planet’s environment is quickly becoming so, everyone’s politics are just so much horseshit and gun smoke.......

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