The Environmental Protection Agency-hating chief of the EPA was on Fox & Friends Thursday morning, spouting what has become his standard line of nonsense about President Obama’s stance on jobs and the environment. Scott Pruitt, who as Oklahoma attorney general sued the EPA more than a dozen times, said on Fox what he’s been saying frequently:
“The president has sent a clear message that the last eight years, where we had to choose between jobs and the environment — those days are over.” [...]
“Two weeks ago we were at the EPA, joined by 40 or so coal miners from Pennsylvania. They were emotional about it because the war on coal ended; the war on fossil fuels ended,” Pruitt said.
“And this false choice between jobs and growth and the environment, we have rejected that,” he added.
Pruitt is right about one thing. The idea that we must pick between protecting the environment and having good jobs is, most definitely, a “false choice.”
But it wasn’t the Obama administration that put forth that choice. It’s the braying bullshitters of the Republican Party and a few Democratic enablers who have been promoting that theme. After all, job losses are one of the chief public justifications the Trump regime has given for rolling back environmental regulations, including the Clean Power Plan.
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