Trump's War Against Government Environmental Protection

SCOTT PRUITT was chosen by Trump to be the E.P.A. Director, because Pruitt, like most conservatives, cares not a whit about using government to protect the environment. He wants to eliminate government regulation of environmental protection, rather than strengthen it, which is the states purpose of the agency he so ridiculously now heads. To actually protect the environment might be bad for business, after all, and no matter what the condition of the world's ecosystem, one must not hinder business. Trump, of course, needs every conservative vote to survive in office. Disemboweling the Environmental Protection Agency will prove a prickly project at best, involving much legislative and judicial resistance and detail. Conservatives are beginning to lose patience, since the EPA still exists; liberals lost it long ago, because of the unwillingness of a large portion of conservative America to concede that global warming is real, and that it is caused by human activity, namely corporate capitalism, which can and must be reformed. Protests, petitions, and protests are beginning to manifest, and five'll get you ten that first Pruitt, then Trump will be run out of town. Quite clearly, the government is going to be used to protect and to try to heal the environment, regardless of conservatism's hold on it, because we the people are going to insist on it, because we want to survive. When Scott Pruitt was Oklahoma Attorney General, he filed lawsuit after lawsuit against the EPA, claiming government overreach. Now, ironically, as EPA director, a wolf in the hen house if ever there were one, the lawsuits are heading his way, many of them alleging deliberate immolation of government. Trump and Pruitt are essentially making war against a vital part of the federal government's environmental protection and regulatory system, and that is treason.