EMAILS REVEAL EPA CHIEF SCOTT PRUITT’S ? DEALINGS WITH OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY
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https://theintercept.com/2017/02/22/emails-reveal-epa-chief-scott-pruitts-? -dealings-with-oil-and-gas-industry/?comments=1#comments
EMAILS RELEASED TUESDAY night illustrate the remarkably close relationship between EPA head Scott Pruitt and the oil and gas industry while he served as Oklahoma’s attorney general. The emails were made public as the result of a lawsuit and open records request by the Center for Media and Democracy only days after Pruitt was confirmed to lead an agency he has long fought to undermine.
The 7,500 documents reveal a new example of oil and gas industry operatives drafting and editing text Pruitt submitted to a federal agency, and they show how Oklahoma Gas & Electric and American Electric Power, both of which contributed to Pruitt’s election campaigns, reviewed documents pertaining to at least one rule affecting utility rates.
The emails contain thousands of references to and communications with the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, which has ties to ALEC, the conservative group that drafts “model” pro-business legislation. Pruitt’s office seemed to operate in conjunction with the council, which helped coordinate press for the attorney general and regularly released his blog posts on their newsletter, “Freedom Flash.” So after Pruitt appeared on Fox News in November 2013, for instance, OCPA’s Jonathan Small emailed Aaron Cooper, who was Pruitt’s director of public affairs, to tell him he was going to turn the video into a blog and “freedom flash it out.”
The emails also show employees’ attempts to make the work of the attorney general’s office confidential. “Don’t forget to take our name off our appearance,” reads one email from Oklahoma Assistant Attorney General Nicole King. Another email sent to three people in the attorney general’s office reads, “As you will see there is some confidential and highly sensitive confidential information. I am working on a confidentiality agreement based on what the Commission has been approving.”
In keeping with this effort to keep Pruitt’s communications private, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office still has not released all the emails the Center for Media and Democracy first requested more than two years ago. Even after Oklahoma Judge Aletia Haynes Timmons criticized the office for its “abject failure” to follow the open records law, the AG’s office withheld an unspecified number of documents on the grounds that they were privileged. Many of those that it did release were redacted. Judge Timmons ruled that the attorney general’s office has to supply additional records by February 27.
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Ok non critical thinkers....this case is what we call a "conspiracy" More than one persons or parties involved
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draining the swamp.
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Good job america, good job.
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as soon as you see "ALEC" know it's waaaaay bigger than Oklahoma. Going down that rabbit hole is not for the faint of heart.
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Some many issues that were once taught to be "conspiracy theories" have come are coming to the surface. Keep digging critical thinkers
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Thats not a conspiracy, that blantant and arrogant corruption. Real conspiracies are things that difficult to get a handle on, like.
Telemarking rules have loosened to the point it's opened a whole new lane of sophisticated thief. And they are that way because to tighten regulations on that would be to tighten regulations on campaign drives for politicians.
Google, has joined hands with Apple and Microsoft. To the point that they both have pretty much outright abondoned their own web browsers. When the want for supplier generated content and accessories is at an all time high.
In addition to that the goverment pays google tons of money to manufacture telecommunications structures and networks for them. Google, at the moment the most power full institute in cyber space, and communications has no competition or enemies. In the history of capitalism, when has that ever been?
How is Burger King in a position to buy Popeyes when they can barely compete with their own competition.
Kid Cudi who has been out of music for two years has a smash undeniable single in the song waves. I see and hear kid cudi song every other day without even trying. I have yet to accidentally hear a chance the rapper song or see a video. But chance the rapper is next up?
Obama met with Rick Ross and a whole host of other hiphop names. Months later Ross releases buy back the block. A song aimed at charging up black entrepreneurs to purchase and flip property in their own neighborhoods. An initiative aimed at black entrepreneurs is now titles buy back then block. Yes, buy back property worth nothing in the grand scheme of things and flip it to what and to what end? -
It is a conspiracy..
As for chance, I to am wondering how he next and getting this subliminal push? Heard his dad plugged with Obama or Rahm something of that nature -
Every trump appointee is anti whatever their in charge of...
Hes gonna appoint Cruella De vil as head of the humane society
