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5/08/2017 4:37 am  #1


E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board

So, the Environmental Protection Agency will get rid of scientists, and replace them with representatives of the industries that the EPA is supposed to monitor.

The fox has been hired to guard the hen house.





E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency has dismissed at least five members of a major scientific review board, the latest signal of what critics call a campaign by the Trump administration to shrink the agency’s regulatory reach by reducing the role of academic research.

A spokesman for the E.P.A. administrator, Scott Pruitt, said he would consider replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate.


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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
 

5/08/2017 6:15 am  #2


Re: E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board

Anyone thinking THIS is Making America Great Again is REALLY screwed-up ! 


"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
 
 

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