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Trump picks climate change sceptic to head EPA, mass deregulation expected
GLOBAL warming sceptic Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general, has been selected to run the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by US President-elect Donald Trump.
This gives the transport sector reason to hope - if not rejoice - over prospects of having crippling environmental regulations removed and banned freedoms restored.
Mr Pruitt has been a key architect of the legal battle against President Barack Obama's climate change policies, reported the New York Times.
Mr Trump has criticised the established science of human-caused global warming as a hoax, vowed to "cancel" the Paris accord and his "war on coal".
Mr Pruitt told Reuters that he sees the Clean Power Plan as a form of federal "coercion and commandeering" of energy policy and that his state should have "sovereignty to make decisions for its own markets".
Mr Pruitt, writing in the National Review, said the debate over global warming "is far from settled" and claimed "scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of global warming and its connection to the actions of mankind".
He also filed court briefs in support of the Keystone XL Pipeline project blocked by the Obama administration, which would have run through his state.
Mr Pruitt also sued the EPA over the agency's recent expansion of water bodies regulated under the federal Clean Water Act.
"Respect for private property rights have allowed our nation to thrive, but with the recently finalised rule, farmers, ranchers, developers, industry and individual property owners will now be subject to the unpredictable, unsound and often byzantine regulatory regime of the EPA," he said.
This gives the transport sector reason to hope - if not rejoice - over prospects of having crippling environmental regulations removed and banned freedoms restored.
Mr Pruitt has been a key architect of the legal battle against President Barack Obama's climate change policies, reported the New York Times.
Mr Trump has criticised the established science of human-caused global warming as a hoax, vowed to "cancel" the Paris accord and his "war on coal".
Mr Pruitt told Reuters that he sees the Clean Power Plan as a form of federal "coercion and commandeering" of energy policy and that his state should have "sovereignty to make decisions for its own markets".
Mr Pruitt, writing in the National Review, said the debate over global warming "is far from settled" and claimed "scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of global warming and its connection to the actions of mankind".
He also filed court briefs in support of the Keystone XL Pipeline project blocked by the Obama administration, which would have run through his state.
Mr Pruitt also sued the EPA over the agency's recent expansion of water bodies regulated under the federal Clean Water Act.
"Respect for private property rights have allowed our nation to thrive, but with the recently finalised rule, farmers, ranchers, developers, industry and individual property owners will now be subject to the unpredictable, unsound and often byzantine regulatory regime of the EPA," he said.
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