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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>August 11</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Hawaii wildfires ] </i><br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Update and Forecast for the Maui
Wildfires</b><br>
Holt Hanley<br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ poignant tale and good advice from Yale
Climate Connections ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>The climate canary is dead</b><br>
Award-winning religion journalist Cynthia B. Astle grapples with
climate change.<br>
by CYNTHIA B. ASTLE<br>
AUGUST 9, 2023<br>
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<font face="Calibri">I was on my way to a good friend’s installation
to a new ministry when the climate crisis whomped me right upside
my head.<br>
<br>
Maybe it was the heat radiating up from the highway overpass I’d
just crossed that ignited my brain. Or it could have been that my
faulty 70-year-old short-term memory kicked in. Or maybe my blood
sugar spiked in the 102-degree Texas summer.<br>
<br>
Whatever lit up my “leetle gray cells,” as Agatha Christie’s
Hercule Poirot called his brain, I realized three things at once:<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">1. In the stress of trying to
devise a worship-suitable outfit that was also climate-friendly,
I’d forgotten to take my noontime medication, a complex of drugs
that keeps me going.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">2. Likewise, I’d forgotten to don my hearing
aids.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">3. Most of all, I realized that there was no
way that I – an elderly, fat, Type 2 diabetic – was physically
able to park my car (hopefully in a “handicapped” space), totter
on my pretty pink collapsible cane to the sanctuary, worship,
socialize, and totter back out to the car to drive myself home.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">The thought of such effort in triple-digit heat
made me dizzy and breathless. I simply couldn’t go through with
it.<br>
<br>
Defeated, I turned for home at the next intersection. My husband
greeted me with alarm, and then with compassion. I went into the
bedroom to change clothes and dropped down weeping on a bench. My
husband heard me, and he and our two little dogs came in to
console me.<br>
<br>
I felt old and useless. And hot. Really, really hot, and not in a
sexy way.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">That’s when I remembered that not long ago, I’d
written a column about being a “climate canary” because my
disabilities made me more susceptible to climate change effects.
Yep, I thought to myself, the climate canary is dead. Toes up on
the cage bottom. No birdseed required.<br>
<br>
Reaching the biblical “threescore years and ten” this year, I’ve
been adjusting pragmatically to the realities of aging, but my
encounter with this summer’s extreme heat has startled me into
survival mode. I’m re-reading every resource I could find this
summer about how vulnerable people – the elderly, people with
chronic medical conditions, the unhoused, and those who work
outside – must take extra precautions against excessive heat. I’m
reading them again with gut-wrenching knowledge that all these
tips are talking about me.<br>
<br>
I’m more keenly aware that my revelation is janie-come-lately
compared to that of people in vulnerable nations who are bearing
the brunt of climate change they didn’t cause. As I drove home in
defeat, I chafed and cringed at the long lines of Saturday traffic
snaking through the scorching Texas sun. I’m a contributor to the
lifestyle that’s taking my life from me, but I don’t know how to
get out of it. Nor do I know how to persuade my nation – my vast,
industrialized, gas-guzzling land of oily opportunity – to give up
its filthy fossil-fuel ways in time to save the planet and, I
hope, people like me.<br>
<br>
As for right now, I’ve fashioned new personal habits to adapt to a
world that’s going to be hotter than any summer of my Florida
childhood. My rules:<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">-- Never go outside for any
extended time when the air temperature is above 90 degrees.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">-- Avoid going out in the heat of the day,
even for close relationships.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">-- Set up a checklist to take your medicine
in case the heat fries your brain.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">-- Drink water. Gallons upon gallons of
water, because it prevents the dehydration that causes your
blood sugar to rise and threaten fatal diabetic coma. Always
carry a bottle of water with you.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">-- Wear sunscreen on your skin and sunshades
over your eyeglasses when you go out. Even in the early morning,
which lately has been around 80 degrees. A hat wouldn’t be a bad
idea, either.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">-- Forget fashion. Wear clothes that help you
cope with the heat.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">-- Forget make-up. It streams off your face
in this heat. A little lipstick or gloss with sunscreen and a
light dusting of powder. That’s it. (If you don’t like my
un-made-up face, don’t look at me).</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">-- If you feel you need to opt out of social
events, even church worship (my top priority), because of the
heat, then opt out. The COVID pandemic spurred virtual worship,
so the technology is available for at-home watching (but online
worship still isn’t the same for me).</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">--Don’t apologize to anyone for these new
personal rules. You have all the justification you need: age,
disability, and most of all, climate change.</font><br>
</blockquote>
<font face="Calibri">Our ability as humans to adapt has kept our
species alive through millennia. Our adaptability even has led to
scientists calling our geological era the Anthropocene, or the
time of humans. Yep, like the dinosaurs before us, we humans have
taken over the planet. Now the planet is trying to take itself
back, and I suspect that, like this old canary, it’s going to make
up its own rules from here on out.<br>
<br>
I hope I survive to see another birthday. <br>
<br>
This story was originally published by United Methodist Insight
and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism
collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/08/the-climate-canary-is-dead/">https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/08/the-climate-canary-is-dead/</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ We mustn't let our cooling continent
convert to a heater ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Study Warns Burning Fossil Fuels 'Anywhere
in the World' Is Destructive to Antarctica</b><br>
Slashing greenhouse gas emissions is "our best hope of preserving
Antarctica," said the lead author of a new study.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">JAKE JOHNSON<br>
Aug 08, 2023<br>
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<font face="Calibri">The warming continent of Antarctica will face
increasingly extreme and damaging weather events in the coming
years if world leaders don't take "drastic action" to rein in
fossil fuels, the primary driver of global climate chaos.<br>
<br>
That's the conclusion of a study published Tuesday in the journal
Frontiers in Environmental Science amid growing alarm over the
failure of Antarctic sea ice to replenish during the continent's
winter. According to scientists, Antarctica was missing an
Argentina-sized amount of sea ice as of July—the hottest month on
record.<br>
<br>
The new study, led by glaciologist Martin Siegert of the
University of Exeter, finds that it is "virtually certain that
future Antarctic extreme events will be more pronounced than those
observed to date" as countries continue to burn fossil fuels at a
pace incompatible with warming targets set by the Paris climate
accord.<br>
<br>
The study notes that "the most extreme 'heatwave' ever recorded
globally occurred over East Antarctica in March 2022 when surface
temperature anomalies of up to 38.5°C were observed." The heatwave
was associated with an atmospheric river, which transports "heat
and moisture from the subtropics into the heart of the Antarctic
continent."<br>
<br>
"Although it was so extreme, a formal attribution of the March
2022 event to human factors has not yet been conducted," the study
adds. "However, an attribution analysis of an earlier
record-breaking heatwave, that affected the Antarctic Peninsula in
February 2020 and led to the highest recorded temperature in the
Antarctic mainland (18.3°C at Esperanza Station), concluded a
likely significant contribution from fossil-fuel burning."<br>
<br>
The analysis also points to extreme cyclones that were "implicated
in a major iceberg calving event of the Brunt Ice Shelf in 2020"
as well as "the rapid sea ice decline in the Weddell Sea in
2016/17."<br>
<br>
"Possibly the most recognizable extreme event that occurred in the
atmosphere was the loss of stratospheric ozone, discovered above
Antarctica in the 1980s," the study continues. "This loss was
caused largely by a particular class of chemicals:
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Whilst this event catalyzed rapid and
effective policy action by the global community in the development
of the Montreal Protocol (adopted in 1987), the effects of the
'ozone hole' are being felt decades later."<br>
<br>
"This must matter to every country—and individual—on the planet."<br>
<br>
Anna Hogg, professor in the School of Earth and Environment at the
University of Leeds and a study co-author, said the new research
makes clear that "while extreme events are known to impact the
globe through heavy rainfall and flooding, heatwaves, and
wildfires, such as those seen in Europe this summer, they also
impact the remote polar regions."<br>
<br>
"Antarctic glaciers, sea ice, and natural ecosystems are all
impacted by extreme events," said Hogg.<br>
<br>
According to the new study, the Antarctic ice sheet today
"contributes six times more mass to the ocean than it did just 30
years ago," an increase that the authors attributed to the burning
of fossil fuels.<br>
<br>
Siegert stressed that "Antarctic change has global implications."
A study published earlier this year in the journal Nature found
that melting Antarctic ice could impact global oceans for
"centuries to come" by disrupting the critical process of
overturning circulation.<br>
<br>
"Reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero is our best hope of
preserving Antarctica, and this must matter to every country—and
individual—on the planet," said Siegert.<br>
<br>
Dozens of countries—including the United States, the world's top
historical emitter of planet-warming carbon dioxide—are party to
the Antarctic Treaty, an agreement that obliges signatories to
protect the continent from "considerable stress and damage."<br>
<br>
"Nations must understand that by continuing to explore, extract,
and burn fossil fuels anywhere in the world," Siegert said
Tuesday, "the environment of Antarctica will become ever more
affected in ways inconsistent with their pledge."<br>
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<p><font face="Calibri"> </font><font face="Calibri"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/study-warns-burning-fossil-fuels-anywhere-in-the-world-is-destructive-to-antarctica">https://www.commondreams.org/news/study-warns-burning-fossil-fuels-anywhere-in-the-world-is-destructive-to-antarctica</a></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> <i><font face="Calibri">[ see for
yourself ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri">Front. Environ. Sci., 08 August 2023<br>
Sec. Interdisciplinary Climate Studies<br>
Volume 11 - 2023 | <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1229283">https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1229283</a><br>
<b>Antarctic extreme events</b><br>
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<font face="Calibri">There is increasing evidence that fossil-fuel
burning, and consequential global heating of 1.1°C to date, has
led to the increased occurrence and severity of extreme
environmental events. It is well documented how such events have
impacted society outside Antarctica through enhanced levels of
rainfall and flooding, heatwaves and wildfires, drought and
water/food shortages and episodes of intense cooling. Here, we
briefly examine evidence for extreme events in Antarctica and the
Southern Ocean across a variety of environments and timescales. We
show how vulnerable natural Antarctic systems are to extreme
events and highlight how governance and environmental protection
of the continent must take them into account. Given future
additional heating of at least 0.4°C is now unavoidable (to
contain heating to the “Paris Agreement 1.5°C” scenario), and may
indeed be higher unless drastic action is successfully taken on
reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by mid-Century, we
explain it is virtually certain that future Antarctic extreme
events will be more pronounced than those observed to date.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Introduction</b><br>
The past decade has seen a great awareness of increases in the
size and frequency of extreme environmental events across a
variety of global settings, and the associated consequential
damage to lives and livelihoods (Fischer et al., 2021). Many of
these events have been attributed primarily to the burning of
fossil fuels and the loss of nature. For some time now the science
of such attribution has been robust at the level that is needed
beyond reasonable doubt (e.g., Otto et al., 2018), which has led
to serious efforts to consider ‘loss and damage’ payments from
rich developed fossil-fuel-based economies to parts of the world
experiencing the effects of extreme events. While much attention
has been given to weather-driven events such as heatwaves and
rainfall elsewhere in the world, there is yet to be as great an
appreciation of the occurrence and impact of extreme events in
Antarctica. Here, we open a discussion of Antarctic Extreme
Events, focusing on their records across a variety of realms
(ocean, atmosphere, cryosphere, biosphere, etc.), indicating their
likely causes and suggesting how they may change in future. We do
not restrict ourselves solely to those derived from enhanced
greenhouse gases, rather we aim to understand a range of ways in
which Antarctica has and can experience extreme events and their
consequences. In the Antarctic, extreme events are manifested in
many ways, including the effects of: climatic extremes such as
extreme weather events; catastrophic events such as ice shelf
collapse; possible step changes in the environment such as recent
sea ice loss; very rapid periods of environmental change and
corresponding rapid changes in key biota; and sudden,
human-induced direct perturbations, such as the effects of whaling
and sealing. By taking an inclusive approach it allows us to
understand how and why (relatively) rapid change can occur in
Antarctica through high-magnitude low-frequency events of a
variety of types...<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1229283/full">https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1229283/full</a><br>
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ This is a famous William Rees </font></i><i><font
face="Calibri">History </font></i><font face="Calibri"><i>lecture
-- 6 years ago and only 2000 views - this is a rant ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Show Me the Numbers | William Rees |
Walrus Talks</b><br>
The Walrus<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Hg-E_-qPo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Hg-E_-qPo</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - looking back at a
major setback for human civilization ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>August 11, 2017 </b></i></font> <br>
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<p><font face="Calibri"> August 11, 2017: The New York Times reports
on the machinations and secrecy of EPA head Scott Pruitt.</font></p>
<blockquote>
<p><font face="Calibri"><b>Scott Pruitt Is Carrying Out His E.P.A.
Agenda in Secret, Critics Say</b><br>
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<p><font face="Calibri">By Coral Davenport and Eric Lipton<br>
Aug. 11, 2017<br>
WASHINGTON — When career employees of the Environmental
Protection Agency are summoned to a meeting with the agency’s
administrator, Scott Pruitt, at agency headquarters, they no
longer can count on easy access to the floor where his office
is, according to interviews with employees of the federal
agency.<br>
<br>
Doors to the floor are now frequently locked, and employees
have to have an escort to gain entrance.<br>
<br>
Some employees say they are also told to leave behind their
cellphones when they meet with Mr. Pruitt, and are sometimes
told not to take notes.<br>
<br>
Mr. Pruitt, according to the employees, who requested
anonymity out of fear of losing their jobs, often makes
important phone calls from other offices rather than use the
phone in his office, and he is accompanied, even at E.P.A.
headquarters, by armed guards, the first head of the agency to
ever request round-the-clock security.<br>
A former Oklahoma attorney general who built his career suing
the E.P.A., and whose LinkedIn profile still describes him as
“a leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda,” Mr.
Pruitt has made it clear that he sees his mission to be
dismantling the agency’s policies — and even portions of the
institution itself.<br>
<br>
But as he works to roll back regulations, close offices and
eliminate staff at the agency charged with protecting the
nation’s environment and public health, Mr. Pruitt is taking
extraordinary measures to conceal his actions, according to
interviews with more than 20 current and former agency
employees.<br>
<br>
Together with a small group of political appointees, many with
backgrounds, like his, in Oklahoma politics, and with advice
from industry lobbyists, Mr. Pruitt has taken aim at an agency
whose policies have been developed and enforced by thousands
of the E.P.A.’s career scientists and policy experts, many of
whom work in the same building.<br>
<br>
“There’s a feeling of paranoia in the agency — employees feel
like there’s been a hostile takeover and the guy in charge is
treating them like enemies,” said Christopher Sellers, an
expert in environmental history at Stony Brook University, who
this spring conducted an interview survey with about 40 E.P.A.
employees.</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri">Such tensions are not unusual in federal
agencies when an election leads to a change in the party in
control of the White House. But they seem particularly bitter
at the E.P.A.<br>
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<p>Allies of Mr. Pruitt say he is justified in his measures to
ramp up his secrecy and physical protection, given that his
agenda and politics clash so fiercely with those of so many of
the 15,000 employees at the agency he heads.</p>
<p>“E.P.A. is legendary for being stocked with leftists,” said
Steven J. Milloy, a member of Mr. Trump’s E.P.A. transition team
and author of the book “Scare Pollution: Why and How to Fix the
E.P.A.” “If you work in a hostile environment, you’re not the
one that’s paranoid.”<br>
<br>
Mr. Pruitt’s penchant for secrecy is reflected not just in his
inaccessibility and concern for security. He has terminated a
decades-long practice of publicly posting his appointments
calendar and that of all the top agency aides, and he has evaded
oversight questions from lawmakers on Capitol Hill, according to
the Democratic senators who posed the questions.<br>
<br>
His aides recently asked career employees to make major changes
in a rule regulating water quality in the United States —
without any records of the changes they were being ordered to
make. And the E.P.A. under Mr. Pruitt has moved to curb certain
public information, shutting down data collection of emissions
from oil and gas companies, and taking down more than 1,900
agency webpages on topics like climate change, according to a
tally by the Environmental Defense Fund, which did a Freedom of
Information request on these terminated pages.</p>
<p>William D. Ruckelshaus, who served as E.P.A. director under two
Republican presidents and once wrote a memo directing agency
employees to operate “in a fishbowl,” said such secrecy is
antithetical to the mission of the agency.<br>
<br>
“Reforming the regulatory system would be a good thing if there
were an honest, open process,” he said. “But it appears that
what is happening now is taking a meat ax to the protections of
public health and environment and then hiding it.”<br>
<br>
Mr. Ruckelshaus said such secrecy could pave the way toward, or
exacerbate, another disaster like the contamination of public
drinking water in Flint, Mich., or the 2014 chemical spill into
the public water supply in Charleston, W.Va. — while leading to
a dearth of information when such events happen.<br>
<br>
“Something will happen, like Flint, and the public will realize
they can’t get any information about what happened or why,” he
said.</p>
<p>But Liz Bowman, a spokeswoman for the E.P.A., categorically
denied the accounts employees interviewed for this article gave
of the secrecy surrounding Mr. Pruitt.<br>
<br>
“None of this is true,” she said. “It’s all rumors.”<br>
<br>
She added, in an emailed statement, “It’s very disappointing,
yet not surprising, to learn that you would solicit leaks, and
collude with union officials in an effort to distract from the
work we are doing to implement the president’s agenda.”<br>
<br>
Mr. Pruitt’s efforts to undo a major water protection rule are
one example of his moves to quickly and stealthily dismantle
regulations.<br>
<br>
The rule, known as Waters of the United States, and enacted by
the Obama administration, was designed to take existing federal
protections on large water bodies such as the Chesapeake Bay and
Mississippi River and expand them to include the wetlands and
small tributaries that flow into those larger waters.<br>
<br>
It was fiercely opposed by farmers, rural landowners and real
estate developers.<br>
<br>
The original estimate concluded that the water protections would
indeed come at an economic cost to those groups — between $236
million and $465 million annually.<br>
<br>
But it also concluded, in an 87-page analysis, that the economic
benefits of preventing water pollution would be greater: between
$555 million and $572 million.<br>
<br>
E.P.A. employees say that in mid-June, as Mr. Pruitt prepared a
proposal to reverse the rule, they were told by his deputies to
produce a new analysis of the rule — one that stripped away the
half-billion-dollar economic benefits associated with protecting
wetlands.<br>
<br>
“On June 13, my economists were verbally told to produce a new
study that changed the wetlands benefit,” said Elizabeth
Southerland, who retired last month from a 30-year career at the
E.P.A., most recently as a senior official in the agency’s water
office.<br>
<br>
“On June 16, they did what they were told,” Ms. Southerland
said. “They produced a new cost-benefit analysis that showed no
quantifiable benefit to preserving wetlands.”<br>
</p>
<p>Ms. Southerland and other experts in federal rule-making said
such a sudden shift was highly unusual — particularly since
studies that estimate the economic impact of regulations can
take months or even years to produce, and are often accompanied
by reams of paperwork documenting the process.<br>
<br>
“Typically there are huge written records, weighing in on the
scientific facts, the technology facts and the economic facts,”
she said. “Everything’s in writing. This repeal process is
political staff giving verbal directions to get the outcome they
want, essentially overnight.”<br>
<br>
Jeffrey Ruch, the executive director of Public Employees for
Environmental Responsibility, an organization representing
government employees in environmental fields, said the E.P.A.
could not allow changes like this to take place, or expect its
employees to follow such directives.<br>
<br>
“This is a huge change, and they made it over a few days, with
almost no record, no documentation,” Mr. Ruchs said, adding, “It
wasn’t so much cooking the books, it was throwing out the
books.”<br>
<br>
Experts in administrative law say such practices skate up to the
edge of legality.<br>
<br>
While federal records laws prohibit senior officials from
destroying records, they could evade public scrutiny of their
decision-making by simply not creating them in the first place.<br>
<br>
“The mere fact they are telling people not to write things down
shows they are trying to keep things hidden,” said Jeffrey
Lubbers, a professor of administrative law at American
University.<br>
<br>
Mr. Pruitt had a reputation for being secretive before he ever
came to the E.P.A.<br>
<br>
While serving as Oklahoma’s attorney general, he came under
criticism for maintaining at least three separate email
accounts, including one private account that he at times used
for state government business.<br>
<br>
During his Senate confirmation, he was asked about these
multiple accounts, providing what some senators considered a
misleading answer.<br>
<br>
A subsequent lawsuit resulted in the release of some of these
other emails, which Mr. Pruitt had asserted did not exist.</p>
<p>“He’s got a serious problem because of his emails down in
Oklahoma — he’s burned himself,” said David Schnare, who worked
at the agency from 1978 to 2011 and then on the Trump
administration’s E.P.A. transition team. “He doesn’t want to
take any risks.”<br>
<br>
Mr. Schnare, a conservative Republican who has backed President
Trump’s broader agenda, had taken on what was expected to be a
more permanent role at the E.P.A.<br>
<br>
But he resigned last month in protest of what he said is Mr.
Pruitt’s mismanagement of the agency.<br>
<br>
Mr. Schnare noted that some previous E.P.A. administrators had
been secretive — during the Obama administration, for example,
Lisa Jackson, the E.P.A. administrator, came under criticism for
using an email alias, “Richard Windsor,” to conduct official
business.<br>
<br>
But Mr. Schnare said that Mr. Pruitt’s methods stood out from
all of his predecessors.<br>
<br>
“My view was that under this administration we would be good at
transparency, particularly in the regulatory area,” he said.
“But these guys aren’t doing that.”<br>
<br>
Senator Thomas R. Carper of Delaware, the top Democrat on the
committee overseeing federal government operations, has
criticized Mr. Pruitt for embracing what he calls “a culture of
secrecy around everything from his schedule to the way the
agency makes scientific determinations.”<br>
<br>
Mr. Carper and other Senate Democrats have a dozen outstanding
requests awaiting a response from Mr. Pruitt, and when responses
do come, Mr. Carper said, they referred lawmakers to printouts
of news releases instead of answering questions.<br>
<br>
An E.P.A. spokesman disputed Mr. Carper’s criticisms.<br>
<br>
“Administrator Pruitt has responded to 14 of the 27 oversight
letters, which often contain numerous in-depth questions and it
takes time to provide an extensive and through response,” he
said, adding that he “has been incredibly responsive to
Congress.”<br>
<br>
Mr. Pruitt and his staff are also subject to intense scrutiny
from the public and the news media: The E.P.A., just in the last
two months, has received more than 2,000 Freedom of Information
requests, many of them focused on Mr. Pruitt, asking for every
possible record related to his tenure, including text messages,
telephone records and even his web browsing history.<br>
<br>
Yet for E.P.A. employees, information about Mr. Pruitt’s
activities can be hard to obtain.<br>
<br>
In April, for example, he traveled to Chicago to visit an
E.P.A.-designated hazardous waste site.<br>
<br>
But E.P.A. employees at the agency’s Chicago office said they
had no idea he was there — nor did he visit the Chicago branch
of the agency, or meet with staff members.<br>
<br>
“He won’t meet with us or talk to us to make decisions about
policy, and we don’t even know when he’s in town,” said Nicole
Cantello, a lawyer in the E.P.A.’s Chicago office and a leader
of the employee union.<br>
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