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Pruitt is accused of declining to exercise the mandate of EPA in various ways, and discarding results and recommendations from staff scientists. In context, he was appointed to administer EPA by an executive that is issuing orders to modify science based recommendations by fiat. A cursory search in this area returns a variety of examples. --canceled tracking requirements for fossil-fuel related methane emissions[1] -…
Generally, I like his evidence-based protocols over the predecessor, but #2 (in your list) is troubling (as implemented. Hes's a corruptocrat and must go ... but I actually like the (general) balance (Cost-Benefit) of most (most! not all!) of his diktat moves. Sometimes it feels as if that agency was arguing over parts in a million vs parts in a quadrilion. At some point - it just becomes too expensive to implement f…
You claim in this and other comments to be someone who prefers "evidence-based" arguments and policy. But you've provided few if any references yourself to decisions you believe the Pruitt-led EPA have made that embody evidence-based decision making.