Tom Carper (D-DE) Doing His Best To Block Kathleen White; 18 Instances Of Plagiarism In Testimony
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Carper’s announcement came one week after he and nine other Senate Democrats wrote a letter to White highlighting at least 18 instances where her responses to follow-up questions matched word for word written testimony given during the nomination process for EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and William Wehrum, EPA assistant administrator for air and radiation.
White works as a senior fellow and director of the Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment at the fossil-fuel funded Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF). Prior to joining the TPPF, White served as chair and commissioner of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and member of the Texas Water Development Board. She oversaw the TCEQ practice of intentionally under-reporting levels of radiation in water and allowed at least 35 violations to go unreported, according to the Sierra Club.
The CEQ, formed in 1970, coordinates environmental policy at the White House and plays a central role in the implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires an assessment of the environmental impacts of many proposed federal actions before they are undertaken. White will struggle to gain any support from any Senate Democrats, given her extreme positions on climate science and environmental regulation. The question is whether her nomination will run into resistance among Republicans. Michael Dourson, Trump’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, withdrew his name from consideration late week, after key Republican senators made it clear he could not win confirmation.
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White has written that global warming “is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science.” She has touted the supposed benefits of pollution, calling carbon dioxide “the gas of life” and “lacking any characteristics of a pollutant.”
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https://thinkprogress.org/democrat-opposes-ceq-nomination-eb3d4894b7cc/