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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) overhauled its external advisory boards Friday with new members representing various regulated industries and states, among other entities.

Among the dozens of new members to the Science Advisory Board, Clean Air Safety Advisory Committee and Board of Scientific Counselors are representatives of Phillips 66 Co., Southern Co. and the North Dakota Petroleum Council.

Some of the new advisers have controversial scientific views, including one who believes air quality is too clean for children, while the new members include multiple climate change skeptics.

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To be clear, Republicans are pushing a $1 trillion tax cut for business owners while saying there’s no money for kids’ health care.

Technically it's people who are familiar with the situation saying that, but yeah. Nothing we didn't know already but it's nice to see things moving along.

Guarantee they're going to throw the book at Flynn's son. I would.

The best part about all this is that these guys are such scumbags, you don't even have to feel slightly bad for them. I hope Mueller uses every tactic in the book to nail them to the wall.

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Steven Greenhouse‏ @greenhousenyt 23h23 hours ago
Trump/GOP child tax credit is extended to families making $300,000 but does zilch for single mothers at minimum wage https://www.cbpp.org/blog/house-gops-child-tax-credit-expansion-excludes-millions-of-children-in-lower-income-working …

Yeah, I savor the irony of the General who chanted "lock her up" potentially getting locked up.

Cycloptichorn wrote:

Technically it's people who are familiar with the situation saying that, but yeah. Nothing we didn't know already but it's nice to see things moving along.

Guarantee they're going to throw the book at Flynn's son. I would.

The best part about all this is that these guys are such scumbags, you don't even have to feel slightly bad for them. I hope Mueller uses every tactic in the book to nail them to the wall.

Cycloptichorn

Yeah, I savor the irony of the General who chanted "lock her up" potentially getting locked up. Not sure I get your point that we "already knew" anything beyond the daily non-stop media speculation. I don't think we "know" anything Mueller is doing or going to do before Mueller or his officials tell us.

A note of historical accuracy: The first primary election was in 1901, in Florida, and by 1916, 26 states (more than half) were holding primary elections. In 1920, New Hampshire was the first state to hold a primary election for presidential candidates. It wasn't anything new in 1980.
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The influence of any one individual or group in a party is not a function of primary elections, or the debates which have now become traditional in the primary season. Primary elections are a tool, but certainly don't determine the leadership of either party.

The risk of billionaire-funded media, the importance of archiving, and other takeaways from the demise of DNAInfo and Gothamist

Signs that the sites’ owner Joe Ricketts didn’t hold journalistic independence sacrosanct came soon after DNAinfo acquired Gothamist LLC, which promptly deleted at least five stories since 2010 about its new owner.

The U.S. president said he could not understand why a country of samurai warriors did not shoot down the [NK] missiles, the sources said.

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The risk of billionaire-funded media, the importance of archiving, and other takeaways from the demise of DNAInfo and Gothamist

Signs that the sites’ owner Joe Ricketts didn’t hold journalistic independence sacrosanct came soon after DNAinfo acquired Gothamist LLC, which promptly deleted at least five stories since 2010 about its new owner.

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Well thank God you are not most people George. ...