Brilliant - Obama filled the post with politically correct hacks - Trump is putting in a PhD in Chemical Engineering who currently is head of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. From The Daily Caller:
Trump Could Appoint Someone Totally Unexpected To Head EPA
Members of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team are interviewing candidates to head up the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). While media reports indicate the president-elect has narrowed the field down to two candidates, a new name is on the lips of some on Trump’s transition team: Dr. Donald van der Vaart.
Van der Vaart is a PhD chemical engineer who currently heads the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. If appointed and approved by Congress, Van der Vaart would be the first PhD scientist to head EPA. He also holds a law degree.
Sources close to Trump’s transition team said van der Vaart would put a halt to overreaching regulations and the so-called “secret science” EPA relies on to push ever-stricter rules on businesses.
“He can see right through this stuff,” a source told The Daily Caller News Foundation, arguing van der Vaart would be critical of any shoddy science coming out of the agency.
Great choice if he is appointed. Here is a link to the letter (PDF file) that van der Vaart wrote to Gina McCarthy on November 28th of this year. Good stuff!
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