Oh no, corporate america owns the government? The hell you say. If it was 1919 this might be news, old news even then, but news.
And now the EPA is the Industry Protection Agency. Who cares about fetal development? Mercury is good for babies and other living things.. Trump has read nothing about this. Because Trump doesn't read. During his first year in office, President Trump signed executive orders declaring his intention to dismantle environmental rules. As his second year comes to a close, agencies have set the wheels in motion to weaken or repeal nearly a dozen restrictions on air and water pollution or planet-warming emissions of carbon dioxide, including a plan to reduce the number of waterways that are protected from pollutants and another making it easier for utilities to build new coal plants. Reworking the mercury rule, which the E.P.A. considers the priciest clean-air regulation ever put forth in terms of annual cost to industry, would represent a victory for the coal industry and in particular for Robert E. Murray, an important former client of Mr. Wheeler’s from his days as a lobbyist. Mr. Murray, the chief executive of Murray Energy Corporation, personally requested the rollback of the mercury rule soon after Mr. Trump took office.
I think the real truth in this list is no one of any gravitas in these areas will work for Trump so he has to scrape the bottom of the barrel but that doesn’t change the end result being big business is now running the government that is supposed to be of, by and for the people.