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Pruitt cites Bible in ending way EPA committees staffed

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Pruitt cites Bible in ending way EPA committees staffed

By Dino Grandoni
November 1, 2017

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Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt

After much speculation in recent days, Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt announced on Tuesday he was upending the way the agency’s key advisory groups are staffed. Any researcher who receives EPA grant money is now barred from serving as an adviser on the Scientific Advisory Board, the Clean Air Science Advisory Committee and the Board of Scientific Counselors. The move would ban a large swath of researchers currently on the boards, and open more spots for scientists funded by alternative sources — including by regulated companies. Environmental and scientific groups were quick to condemn the changes, arguing that industry-friendly boards could lead to less rigorous environmental protection.

Pruitt, a deeply religious Christian, pulled a passage from the Book of Joshua to justify his decision. "Joshua says to the people of Israel: choose this day whom you are going to serve," Pruitt said. "This is sort of like the Joshua principle — that as it relates to grants from this agency, you are going to have to choose either service on the committee to provide counsel to us in an independent fashion or chose the grant. But you can’t do both. That’s the fair and great thing to do." The takeaway is that the creation story in Genesis shows that God has given mankind dominion over Earth. In contrast, environmentalists, as one pastor put it, "have started worshiping God's creation, the planet and all the living organisms on it, instead of God."
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This is what happens when people steeped in Christian religious dogma are appointed to cabinet positions. The peer reviewed science community is suborned to ... God and the Bible. This restriction also allows Pruitt - elitist and swamp creature - to appoint more industry representatives to craft government policy and ignore academic/independent EPA researchers not beholden to corporations and monopolies. The changes represent a major purge of independent scientists and a decision to sideline the Science Advisory Board (SAB) from major EPA decision-making in the future. In Pruitt's convoluted world, an EPA grant disqualifies a scientist from advising the EPA, but industry funding doesn't.

Related: EPA chief blocks scientists who receive agency grants from committees
 
and the stupid son of a bitch prolly believes God created all things in six days & that the world is only 6,000 to 7,000 years old

yep; just the ****ing brain dead sewage we need in DC ...............
 
Maybe the CDC should only use scientists who get funding from tobacco companies... he obviously is determined to make government big corp's lil bitch.

I'm ashamed to admit he comes from my state but my state is full of hypocrites who are in bed with big oil.... :peace
 
Rogue Valley said:
Pruitt cites Bible in ending way EPA committees staffed



This is what happens when people steeped in Christian religious dogma are appointed to cabinet positions. The peer reviewed science community is suborned to ... God and the Bible. This restriction also allows Pruitt - elitist and swamp creature - to appoint more industry representatives to craft government policy and ignore academic/independent EPA researchers not beholden to corporations and monopolies. The changes represent a major purge of independent scientists and a decision to sideline the Science Advisory Board (SAB) from major EPA decision-making in the future. In Pruitt's convoluted world, an EPA grant disqualifies a scientist from advising the EPA, but industry funding doesn't.

Related: EPA chief blocks scientists who receive agency grants from committees
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Perhaps he has a point in that the people receiving the grants, should not be on the committees deciding who receives the grants!
In most business and government jobs, it is considered a conflict of interest.
I guess the pre Pruitt EPA ran under a different set of rules.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Pruitt cites Bible in ending way EPA committees staffed



This is what happens when people steeped in Christian religious dogma are appointed to cabinet positions. The peer reviewed science community is suborned to ... God and the Bible. This restriction also allows Pruitt - elitist and swamp creature - to appoint more industry representatives to craft government policy and ignore academic/independent EPA researchers not beholden to corporations and monopolies. The changes represent a major purge of independent scientists and a decision to sideline the Science Advisory Board (SAB) from major EPA decision-making in the future. In Pruitt's convoluted world, an EPA grant disqualifies a scientist from advising the EPA, but industry funding doesn't.

Related: EPA chief blocks scientists who receive agency grants from committees
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Sorry, but this is complete BS. What Pruitt has done is remove a giant conflict of interest from EPA processes.

EPA / Quote of the Week
Quote of the Week – no more ‘currying favor’ at the EPA

We covered the announcement of EPA administrator Scott Pruitt yanking away the conflict of interest issue that has plagued EPA Science Advisory Boards; members of those boards also received EPA grants.
“Process matters,” Pruitt said during the announcement on Tuesday at EPA headquarters. “As we engage in rule making… we also need to respect the record, the science, that we are relying on to make decisions.”
He went on to add that no scientific adviser should appear to have a conflict of interest with the agency.
“They will have to choose: either the grant, or service, but not both,” Pruitt said.
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Predictably, leftist trough feeders are outraged. The execrable Think Progress accuses Pruitt of “manufacturing reality”.
But there’s also support from Dr. Lucas Bergkamp, who is an environmental scientist:


Dr. Lucas Bergkamp @lbergkamp


Who manufactures reality? Scientists cannot receive funding from Agency and serve on its advisory board at the same time. https://twitter.com/climateprogress/status/925436947987881984 …
3:09 PM - Oct 31, 2017

  • and some common sense from Dr. Judith Curry:


Judith Curry @curryja


I support Pruitt on this. I have served on numerous federal advisory committees, which seem like giant exercises in logrolling https://twitter.com/lbergkamp/status/925439688676204544 …
4:43 PM - Oct 31, 2017

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Meanwhile . . . .

NASA
[h=1]AGW Skeptic Rep. Jim Bridenstine NASA Administrator confirmation hearing begins today.[/h]Guest post by David Middleton Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) has been nominated to be the new NASA Administrator by President Trump. His confirmation hearing starts today… And the greenies are having conniption fits! OCT. 31, 2017 AT 1:14 PM Trump’s Nominee For NASA Chief Could Remake The Agency By Rebecca Boyle Filed under Space Before…
 
Jack Hays said:
Meanwhile . . . .

NASA
[h=1]AGW Skeptic Rep. Jim Bridenstine NASA Administrator confirmation hearing begins today.[/h]Guest post by David Middleton Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) has been nominated to be the new NASA Administrator by President Trump. His confirmation hearing starts today… And the greenies are having conniption fits! OCT. 31, 2017 AT 1:14 PM Trump’s Nominee For NASA Chief Could Remake The Agency By Rebecca Boyle Filed under Space Before…
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I think it is time for NASA to get new leadership, with a focus of their primary mission, space!
 
Rogue Valley said:
The BS was Pruitt using the Bible to justify his decision.
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Bible verses are quoted in speeches all the time. That's just fine; Obama did it often. The kernel of dishonesty was provided by the author Grandoni. Note that Pruitt has nothing to do with this passage:

The takeaway is that the creation story in Genesis shows that God has given mankind dominion over Earth. In contrast, environmentalists, as one pastor put it, "have started worshiping God's creation, the planet and all the living organisms on it, instead of God."
 
Rogue Valley said:
The BS was Pruitt using the Bible to justify his decision.
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It is a conflict of interest for the advisory board awarding grants to be able to receive those same grants.
The course Pruitt took to arrive at his decision is not relevant, only that it will survive legal challenge.
Almost every other level of government attempts to eliminate and minimize conflicts of interest,
should not the EPA also?
 
longview said:
It is a conflict of interest for the advisory board awarding grants to be able to receive those same grants.
The course Pruitt took to arrive at his decision is not relevant, only that it will survive legal challenge.
Almost every other level of government attempts to eliminate and minimize conflicts of interest,
should not the EPA also?
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Why should industry hacks have an inside track with the EPA?

This is the same Scott Pruitt who sued the EPA numerous times on behalf of Oklahoma energy corporations.

This is the same Scott Pruitt who's self-admitted mission was to deconstruct the EPA.

Lastly, Pruitt and Pence can leave their Bibles at home when on the taxpayers dime.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Why should industry hacks have an inside track with the EPA?

This is the same Scott Pruitt who sued the EPA numerous times on behalf of Oklahoma energy corporations.

This is the same Scott Pruitt who's self-admitted mission was to deconstruct the EPA.

Lastly, Pruitt and Pence can leave their Bibles at home when on the taxpayers dime.
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Yours is an assumption that the people on the advisory boards will be different than before,
Pruitt has simple said that if you are on the boards deciding who get the grants, you cannot receive one of the grants.
Those pure as the driven snow advisors now receiving grants, could stay on the boards, but would have to forgo the grant money.
 
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