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President Barack Obama’s two appointees to the EPA, Gina McCarthy and her predecessor Lisa Jackson, are the most recent of the letter’s signatories, joined by Christine Todd Whitman, William Reilly and Lee Thomas, of the George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan administrations, respectively. Carol Browner, who led the EPA for both of President Bill Clinton’s terms, signed the letter as well.

President Donald Trump has appointed two heads to the EPA in just one term. His first pick, former Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt, resigned in 2018 after a brief stint beset by ethics scandals. Longtime coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler took Pruitt’s place and continued the deregulatory campaign handed down by White House executive order.

While neither Trump, Pruitt nor Wheeler are cited by the former administrators in their letter, the report itself asserts that “actions during the Trump administration have further decreased public confidence in the agency’s credibility, undercut its historic dedication to high ethical standards, and affected employee morale.”

“In recent years, adverse changes to the way science is used and managed by EPA has: marginalized the scientific basis for EPA policies and decisions; significantly reduced the credibility of EPA actions and efforts; jeopardized human health and the environment; and provided opportunities for special interests to have a disproportionate influence on EPA actions,” another section of the report states.

https://www.courthousenews.com/six-epa-heads-dating-back-to-reagan-call-for-sweeping-reset/

 

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Trump speaks out of both sides of his mouth-

"Windmills are not something America should invest in. They kill massive amounts of birds."

"American coal, that is the best investment!"

(Speaking in a backroom with potential campaign money contributors- "I can fix it, that you
will be able to kill all of the birds that you want to, and pay no penalty.")

Judge said- "No so fast!"

August 11, 2020

Quoting ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ judge strikes down Trump administration rollback
of historic law protecting birds

‘It is not only a sin to kill a mockingbird, it is also a crime,’ Judge Valerie Caproni
wrote in a forceful decision

https://www.washingtonpost.com/clim...rumps-rollback-historic-law-protecting-birds/

A federal judge in New York has invalidated rule changes by the Trump administration
that allowed individuals and corporations to kill scores of birds as long as they could
prove they did not intentionally set out to do so.

In the administration’s view, even BP, the company responsible for the 2010 Deepwater
Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that led to the deaths of an estimated 1 million birds
would not be liable for punishment under the law.

A landowner who destroys endangered owl nests without checking before building a barn
or an oil company that fails to cover a tar pit that birds could dive into and be killed could
not be held responsible as they have for decades.

(The promise that companies that kill birds, pay no fines, falls through, too.)

Two disastrous oil spills, the BP Deepwater Horizon spill off Louisiana in 2010 and the
Exxon Valdez oil tanker wreck off Alaska in 1989, accounted for 97 percent of the fines,
according to the Audubon Society.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/clim...rumps-rollback-historic-law-protecting-birds/