Bush EPA Chief Chastises Trump's Climate Change Denying Pick

The woman who ran the Environment Protection Agency under former President George W. Bush slammedDonald Trumpschoice to run the department.He obviously doesnt care much for the agency or any of the regulations it has promulgated, Christine Todd Whitman said of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt. He doesnt believe in climate change; he wants to roll back the Clean Power Plan.The president-elects pick has deep ties to the fossil fuels industry, fightingEPArestrictions whileraking in hundreds of thousands in political donations from the energy sector.Pruitt has also sued the EPA over proposed restrictions on power plants andcalled climate changean issue that is far from settled.Whitman told the Grist that Pruitt is disdainful of the agency and the science behind what the agency does.The former New Jersey Governor and longtime Republicanbacked Hillary Clinton for president.Whitman has said she left the EPA because of what she describes as the White Houses refusalto confront the dangers of climate change. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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