E.P.A. Chiefs Calendar: A Stream of Industry Meetings and Trips Home

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Source: NYT

WASHINGTON — For lunch on April 26, Scott Pruitt, the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, dined with top executives from Southern Company, one of the nation’s largest coal-burning electric utilities, at Equinox, a white-tablecloth favorite of Washington power brokers.

That evening, it was on to BLT Prime, a steakhouse inside the Trump International Hotel in Washington, for a meal with the board of directors of Alliance Resource Partners, a coal-mining giant whose chief executive donated nearly $2 million to help elect President Trump.

Before those two agenda items, Mr. Pruitt met privately with top executives and lobbyists from General Motors to talk about their request to block an Obama administration move to curb emissions that contribute to climate change.

It was just a typical day for Mr. Pruitt, the former Oklahoma attorney general. Since taking office in February, Mr. Trump’s E.P.A. chief has held back-to-back meetings, briefing sessions and speaking engagements almost daily with top corporate executives and lobbyists from all the major economic sectors that he regulates — and almost no meetings with environmental groups or consumer or public health advocates, according to a 320-page accounting of his daily schedule from February through May, the most detailed look yet at what Mr. Pruitt has been up to since he took over the agency.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/us/politics/epa-scott-pruitt-calendar-industries-coal-oil-environmentalists.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

[Bluepinky]

1. Mr Pruitt is the perfect EPA chief for our non-presidential President.

Wining and dining with polluters he should be regulating while the earth is dying. He's a character straight out of a George Orwell novel.

[Achilleaze]

2. republicans laughing at Americans

and drooling as they steal & swallow from the American people and the American commonwealth.

[Dustlawyer]

3. Wait just one cotton-pickin minute!

Didn't I read here yesterday about GM going ALL ELECTRIC in the next few years and an end to gasoline burning vehicles on the relatively near horizon? Now, 24 hours later I am reading about their executives and lobbyists eating with that human POS Pruitt and trying to block an environmental regulation to curb emissions!

If I didn't know better I would say that GM doesn't really care about the environment, just money. Oh, and trying to fool us into thinking they give a shite about the future of our planet's inhabitants. GM is all hat and no cattle when it comes to the environment.

On edit, Dining at Trump's D.C. hotel restaurant is the proverbial illegal suck up that brings this way over the top!

[MyOwnPeace]

4. He's only being polite...........

meeting with those who really care - and "donate" accordingly!