Donald Trump made another excellent nomination, of Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt for EPA administrator.  But you wouldn't know it by reading the mainstream media, who criticized Pruitt for being "too friendly" to fossil fuel producers in his fight against Obama energy regulations. At the heart of Mr. Obama's efforts to tackle climate change are a collection of E.P.A. regulations aimed at forcing power plants to significantly reduce their emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide pollution.  They are being forced to reduce their emissions, all right – by shutting down, reducing the overall power supply available to the nation as a whole, as part of Obama's illegal "Clean Power Plan" regulations designed to shut down coal and other fossil fuel power plants, even though we currently have nothing to replace them with. As Mr. Pruitt has sought to use legal tools to fight environmental regulations on the oil and gas...(Read Full Post)