(this is a short dumb thread) Pre-election: studious, quotidian stuff re: projects, initiatives etc. Scientific studies.
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Post-election? Mostly press clips praising Pruitt, news of Pruitt's various trips.
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Nearly all praise is about industry-friendliness; nearly all initiatives cooperating with industry.
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Even casually, narrowly viewed through news alerts, the picture is one of a dept that has near utterly abdicated its duty to regulate.
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Anyway, today the AP wrote about Superfund sites in Texas exposed to floods. "EPA not on scene," they wrote.
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The EPA put out a press release calling the AP's reporting "misleading and inaccurate..."pic.twitter.com/lGR0BvEoFi
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...while confirming the AP's reporting that they had only remotely monitored sites and not acted on any of them. The AP accessed the sites.pic.twitter.com/mfMukNYhxg
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So not only has the EPA abdicated the duties it has performed for 50 years, it is engaging in political smearing of the press and critics.
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This is your government in the era of Trump. /end
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Addendum to the addendum: this press release has been removed from
@EPA site. Here's what it said:pic.twitter.com/gx1h2mnlEd
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Needless to say, the AP reporter toured Superfund sites in Houston - hardly "the comfort of Washington." Among other issues.
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