{"id":50528,"date":"2017-03-11T13:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T18:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=50528"},"modified":"2018-12-09T20:59:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T01:59:56","slug":"the-epa-just-deleted-the-word-science-from-the-office-of-science-mission-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2017\/03\/the-epa-just-deleted-the-word-science-from-the-office-of-science-mission-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"The EPA just deleted the word science from the Office of Science mission statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2017\/03\/epa-science-technology-office-removed-science\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ap_17059821052858-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>EDGI argues these changes signal the EPA&#8217;s new direction\u2014one that prioritizes business interests over public health and science\u2014under new Administrator Scott Pruitt, who has close ties to fossil-fuel companies. Pruitt <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/pruitt-epa-speech-climate-change-public-health-41717efee746#.6ii3rve1o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">didn&#8217;t mention public health once<\/a> in his first speech to agency employees, instead focusing on improving the EPA&#8217;s relationship with private interests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This change is Republican 101. Think about applying this kind of language to oil spills or auto safety. &#8220;Technologically achievable&#8221; is just another way of saying &#8216;don&#8217;t make business spend money on ideas to make things better&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, oil spill clean up rules can&#8217;t be made that require anything ,more than paper towel, because that is all that is technologically achievable. Remediation technology of all kinds will be completely disincentivized under this administration. &#8211;<em>TRP<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2017\/03\/epa-science-technology-office-removed-science\">Guess Which Word the EPA Just Deleted From Its Science Mission Statement | Mother Jones<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDGI argues these changes signal the EPA&#8217;s new direction\u2014one that prioritizes business interests over public health and science\u2014under new Administrator Scott Pruitt, who has close ties to fossil-fuel companies. Pruitt didn&#8217;t mention public health once in his first speech to agency employees, instead focusing on improving the EPA&#8217;s relationship with private interests. This change is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[257,22],"tags":[2089,205,2088],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50528"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50533,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50528\/revisions\/50533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}