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She pushed Trump to exit Paris climate agreement and roll back rules. She's returning to EPA.
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She pushed Trump to exit the Paris climate agreement and roll back environmental rules. And shes returning to EPA as chief of staff.
One of EPAs first Trump appointees, Mandy Gunasekara, has run a pro-Trump nonprofit since leaving the agency a year ago
By Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis
Feb. 14, 2020 at 12:20 p.m. EST
Mandy Gunasekara, who pressed for President Trump to exit the Paris climate agreement as the Environmental Protection Agencys top air-policy adviser, is poised to return to the agency as its next chief of staff, according to two individuals briefed on the matter.
Gunasekara left the EPA a year ago to start what she called a pro-Trump nonprofit in her home state of Mississippi. As head of the advocacy group Energy 45, she has argued on behalf of the presidents support for fossil fuels and other energy policies, writing that his approach has brought both economic prosperity and cleaner air and water.
After joining the EPA in March 2017, Gunasekara oversaw the agencys Office of Air and Radiation on an acting basis for nearly eight months under then-Administrator Scott Pruitt. Trained as a lawyer, she played a key role in working to scale back federal rules aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions and other forms of pollution, including replacing the Obama-era Clean Power Plan and federal gas-mileage standards.
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The EPAs chief of staff, Ryan Jackson, is stepping down later this month to work as the top lobbyist for the National Mining Association. The two individuals briefed on Gunasekaras hiring spoke on the condition of anonymity because the decision had not been publicly announced.
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Gunasekara shares a key credential with other senior EPA staffers serving under Trump, including Jackson and Administrator Andrew Wheeler: They all have worked at some point for Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.). Inhofe has been an outspoken critic of climate change regulations and the author of a book titled The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future.
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Juliet Eilperin
Juliet Eilperin is The Washington Post's senior national affairs correspondent, covering the transformation of federal environmental policy. She's authored two books, "Demon Fish: Travels Through The Hidden World of Sharks" and "Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship is Poisoning the House of Representatives." She has worked for The Post since 1998. Follow https://twitter.com/eilperin
Brady Dennis
Brady Dennis is a national reporter for The Washington Post, focusing on the environment and public health issues. He previously spent years covering the nations economy. Dennis was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for a series of explanatory stories about the global financial crisis. Follow https://twitter.com/brady_dennis
She pushed Trump to exit the Paris climate agreement and roll back environmental rules. And shes returning to EPA as chief of staff.
One of EPAs first Trump appointees, Mandy Gunasekara, has run a pro-Trump nonprofit since leaving the agency a year ago
By Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis
Feb. 14, 2020 at 12:20 p.m. EST
Mandy Gunasekara, who pressed for President Trump to exit the Paris climate agreement as the Environmental Protection Agencys top air-policy adviser, is poised to return to the agency as its next chief of staff, according to two individuals briefed on the matter.
Gunasekara left the EPA a year ago to start what she called a pro-Trump nonprofit in her home state of Mississippi. As head of the advocacy group Energy 45, she has argued on behalf of the presidents support for fossil fuels and other energy policies, writing that his approach has brought both economic prosperity and cleaner air and water.
After joining the EPA in March 2017, Gunasekara oversaw the agencys Office of Air and Radiation on an acting basis for nearly eight months under then-Administrator Scott Pruitt. Trained as a lawyer, she played a key role in working to scale back federal rules aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions and other forms of pollution, including replacing the Obama-era Clean Power Plan and federal gas-mileage standards.
....
The EPAs chief of staff, Ryan Jackson, is stepping down later this month to work as the top lobbyist for the National Mining Association. The two individuals briefed on Gunasekaras hiring spoke on the condition of anonymity because the decision had not been publicly announced.
....
Gunasekara shares a key credential with other senior EPA staffers serving under Trump, including Jackson and Administrator Andrew Wheeler: They all have worked at some point for Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.). Inhofe has been an outspoken critic of climate change regulations and the author of a book titled The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future.
{snip}
Juliet Eilperin
Juliet Eilperin is The Washington Post's senior national affairs correspondent, covering the transformation of federal environmental policy. She's authored two books, "Demon Fish: Travels Through The Hidden World of Sharks" and "Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship is Poisoning the House of Representatives." She has worked for The Post since 1998. Follow https://twitter.com/eilperin
Brady Dennis
Brady Dennis is a national reporter for The Washington Post, focusing on the environment and public health issues. He previously spent years covering the nations economy. Dennis was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for a series of explanatory stories about the global financial crisis. Follow https://twitter.com/brady_dennis
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She pushed Trump to exit Paris climate agreement and roll back rules. She's returning to EPA. (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Feb 2020
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Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)1. "pro-Trump non-profit"
What's their plan? Do they plan on killing themselves before they choke or drown?
Lindsay
(3,276 posts)2. I think they're planning for everybody else
to choke or drown, and leave them the best remaining places to choose from.
(They're not all that smart, or they wouldn't be Trumpists.)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,234 posts)3. So they're all acolytes of Senator Snowball
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)4. Mandy Gunasekara deserves more public exposure
The group she subsequently founded, Energy 45, does not disclose its donors. Gunasekara has written op-eds for newspapers such as USA Today and appeared on television networks such as Fox News, aiming to serve as a counterweight to critics of the Trump administrations efforts to dismantle environmental safeguards.
I think what Republicans are starting to understand is, we need to be better about communicating the good work that were doing, she said in an interview with The Washington Post last year. I always say, were right on the policy, were right on the facts, she added. But what were not great at is conveying that.
I think what Republicans are starting to understand is, we need to be better about communicating the good work that were doing, she said in an interview with The Washington Post last year. I always say, were right on the policy, were right on the facts, she added. But what were not great at is conveying that.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,621 posts)5. Ask, and ye shall receive.
Trumps Beachhead Team Appointments
She's on the list, but ProPublica provides no details.
Source of the quotation:
Here are More than 1,000 Officials Trump has Quietly Deployed Across the Government
By Al Shaw and Derek Kravitz, ProPublica, March 8, 2017
Updated August 31, 2017
By Al Shaw and Derek Kravitz, ProPublica, March 8, 2017
Updated August 31, 2017
She's on the list, but ProPublica provides no details.
Source of the quotation:
Matthew 7 : 7 - 8 KJV - Ask, and it shall be given you; seek ...
7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.