EPA chief Scott Pruitt outlined the Trump administration environmental agenda to Reuters.  It includes a welcome roll-back in Obama-era carbon and clean water regulations, as well as the novel idea of sponsoring a national debate on climate change. "The climate is changing.  That's not the debate.  The debate is how do we know what the ideal surface temperature is in 2100? ... I think the American people deserve an open[,] honest[,] transparent discussion about those things," said Pruitt, who has frequently cast doubt on the causes and implications of global warming. Pruitt reaffirmed plans for the EPA to host a public debate on climate science sometime this year that would pit climate change[-]doubters against other climate scientists, but he provided no further details on timing or which scientists would be involved. Pruitt said among the EPA's top priorities for 2018 will be to replace the Clean Power Plan, former...(Read Full Post)