Sen. Whitehouse Slams Trump’s EPA Pick

Specifically, he has led the fight against the Clean Power Plan and Waters of the US rule which the Chamber has opposed.

Environmental groups reacted to the news with outrage.

The 48-year-old Republican also denies the overwhelming scientific evidence that the Earth is warming and that man-made carbon emissions are to blame.

Some legislators are already preparing to fight Pruitt’s nomination in Senate. Bernie Sanders called the nomination “sad and dangerous” and said he would oppose it.

Liberals are really upset because Pruitt understands what is happening with climate regulations, says Climate Depot head Marc Morano, a skeptic of man-made climate change. “That’s sad and risky”. He also filed court briefs in support of the Keystone XL Pipeline project blocked by the Obama administration. During the campaign, the NY billionaire said he would like to abolish the EPA, or at least gut regulations he says impede corporate profits.

“This is the worst-case scenario when it comes to clean air and clean water, to nominate a climate denier to the agency charged with protecting our natural resources”, Sen.

Scott Pruitt has questioned the science underlying climate change.

While Trump argues that climate change is a hoax, there’s a growing worldwide acceptance that global warming is anything but.

CBS’s Nancy Cordes bemoaned Trump’s climate change switcheroo from earlier in the week.

There were hints that Mr Trump’s apparent recognition of global warming wasn’t actually personally held, in the same New York Times interview that he first made the suggestion.

He has stepped back from casting climate change as a hoax, signalled he might be willing to allow the United States to continue participating in the Paris climate change deal aimed at lowering world carbon emissions, and met with former vice-president Al Gore, a leading environmental voice. “I’m looking at it very closely”, he said, saying that he has “an open mind to it”. “It was a honest search for areas of common ground”. I had a meeting beforehand with Ivanka Trump. Icahn said at the time that he used the market dip as an opportunity to buy more stock, adding that he does not think a Trump presidency will be a negative for the market.

The president-elect noted that his administration “strongly believes in environmental protection”.

In March, a group of state attorneys general formed a coalition to “criminally investigate energy companies for disputing the science behind global warming”. ” She then smeared him by quoting a liberal organization press release arguing he was “unfit to serve”, “The Sierra Club said today, ‘Having Scott Pruitt in charge of the EPA is like putting an arsonist in charge of fighting fires'”.