The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be managed by a climate change denier, Scott Pruitt:
Pruitt has been a vocal critic of what he called the EPA's " activist agenda" and has said he does not believe climate changed is caused by man-made carbon emissions, saying the debate over climate change is "far from settled."
And
Pruitt, among the nation’s most vehement critics of the EPA and Obama administration climate and environmental policies, has forcefully opposed federal mandates for power plant pollution controls and cutting carbon emissions to curb Americans’ impact on the climate.
Fasten your seat-belts and don your gas masks. The ride ahead will be bumpy. And possibly short...
I always find the use of "belief" in these contexts fascinating, just as I find the idea that the debate might be "far from settled." I guess you could argue that there are still people who believe that earth is a flat pancake with maple syrup on it, so in that sense no debate is ever entirely settled.
Anyway, the point is that Pruitt will destroy the EPA. That's his task in the demolition derby administration, where all the departments the conservatives don't like are assigned to those who wish to wreck them.
I'm sure that those who voted for Trump because of economic frustration will love Pruitt. He's going to get rid of all those pesky environmental regulations which hamper business (but might also keep us breathing). What's annoying is that the death of this earth won't affect only those of us who voted for Trump.
Here's another fun aspect of the demolition derby administration: Remember how Trump ranted against the Washington elites? Remember how he promised to drain the swamp?
Good times those were, good times. But now the people Trump has actually picked are mostly from the elites and denizens of that swamp they are supposed to drain. Almost all of his picks are extremely wealthy. Now, before language became perverted that meant they belonged to the elite. And it still refers to those who are going to be out of touch with the white working class people of the Rust Belt.