Trump budget to slash EPA funds, ax staff, kill climate-change plans: reports

Smog obscures George Washington Bridge, 1973 [From EPA Documerica series]Imagine putting a pacifist in charge of the U.S. Defense Department. Or appointing a committed racist to enforce civil rights in the country. The appointment of Scott Pruitt as the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could perhaps be viewed in a similar light. In his former position as Oklahoma attorney general, he sued the...