Extreme anti-environment Cheney aide up for top Energy Department post.
Extreme anti-environment Cheney aide up for top Energy Department post.
F. Chase Hutto, a senior Cheney advisor, is the leading candidate to be appointed assistant secretary for policy and international affairs at the Energy Department, the Washington Post reports. Former EPA official Jason Burnett said Hutto is “naturally and philosophically opposed to regulation,” adding, “I can’t think of a case where Chase advocated more environmental or health protections.” The Washington Post had more highlights from Hutto’s career:
– “At the White House, Hutto has been one of the oil and gas industry’s key points of contact for energy and environmental issues.”
– “In recent months, Hutto has helped scale back a rule proposed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to protect North Atlantic right whales — one of the most endangered animals on the planet — from lethal ship strikes.”
– “Burnett said that this year Hutto opposed tightening federal rules for smog-forming ozone — which is linked to thousands of premature deaths each year– and in 2005 he questioned why the EPA needed to limit mercury emissions from power plants, because the agency had just issued a rule that would have the incidental effect of somewhat reducing the toxic pollutant.”
Hutto is also deeply opposed to regulating greenhouse gas emissions from cars. As one energy official described in July: “He [Hutto] would talk, for example, about not wanting greenhouse gas controls to do away with the large American automobile.”
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August 19th, 2008 at 9:53 amNature haters are everywhere.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:03 amThis really has become a sick game of tug-o-war between these evil bastards and those of us who want progress.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:04 amUp is down, right is wrong, support is a dagger.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:06 amWhen we liberals talk about freedom, we do so in the same manner that the Founding Fathers did with regrad to Democracy and in keeping with the Constitution.
When Cons talk about freedom, they mean for corporations to make as much money and create as much havoc as possible, untethered by government regulations or restrictions.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:07 amHutto joins James A. Sl_utz, the new head of Fossil Fuels, in the Bush Energy Department.
Note what our Energy Dept. doesn’t mention. OPEC reported a huge drop in demand for oil in the second quarter. That’s the same quarter gas went from $3.25 to $4.06 per gallon and Exxon hit record revenues and profits, yet again.
Oil men rule the White House, and it shows…
August 19th, 2008 at 10:08 amI’d love to put a cigarette out in the middle of his enormous forehead…just for fun.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:08 amCan he play the fiddle?
August 19th, 2008 at 10:11 amHmmm,
Pairing Hutto with the EPA’s Stephen Johnson will ensure no progress whatsoever is accomplished in the near future.
Heckuva job, Cheney.
Big Oil is scared to death of progress with renewable energy.
They have the entire global market by the balls now, and will not give up their stranglehold easily.
But…as MIT researchers explore way to store solar energy like plants do, instead of using batteries, the threshold for solar costs will decrease to the point of a good ROI.
Hey Big Oil! I’m the Sun…BOO!
August 19th, 2008 at 10:13 amYeah, a lack of regulation sure was good for Enron. And for the California utilities, and for……..
August 19th, 2008 at 10:16 amMore crapolla for Obama to have to fix once in office so they can “blame” him for not “doing” anything…
August 19th, 2008 at 10:17 amHutto makes James Watt look like a rank amateur.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:18 amWhat? Their wasn’t a slot open on any corporate media channel for another soulless, earth-hating, lie-spewing, anti-democratic paid shill?
Damn libural media
August 19th, 2008 at 10:18 amI meant to add a link to FightingBob.com.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:26 amBush or anyone else will never win “the war on terror”. But he might win the war on the planet.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:29 amJust one more example of this Administration’s putting the fox in charge of the henhouse. This disgusting poor excuse for a human being Dick Cheney never ceases to amaze and anger me with his pro-big oil / anti-American behaviour. This “man” was sworn in and has been entrusted to work within the Constitution towards the betterment of our Nation. Instead he takes every opportunity to undermine our well being with his unjustified war, no-bid contracts, devisive rhetoric, obfuscation of justice and energy policies that do nothing but protect his oil buddies and fill the allready overflowing coffers of his BFF’s at Haliburton. I shouldn’t be surprised knowing this traitor’s track record but it still doesn’t stop this life-long pacifist from wishing that someone would do this Country and the world a great service and put one between his beady soulless eyes. Just how immoral, crooked, criminal and traitorous does an effing VP of the USA have to be before some patriotic member on the Hill finds that selfserving waste of a Speaker of the House an effing table???!!! WHY IS EVERYBODY SO AFRAID OF THIS POS??
August 19th, 2008 at 10:29 amFormer EPA official Jason Burnett said Hutto is “naturally and philosophically opposed to regulation,” adding, “I can’t think of a case where Chase advocated more environmental or health protections.”
Deregulation has done nothing but enrich a handful of people at the expense of our environment and economic system. This is classic conservative authoritarianism where not only are they incapable of learning from past mistakes, they redouble their efforts to repeat them.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
August 19th, 2008 at 10:46 amIs anyone surprised by this? Look at the other agencies — take Labor for instance — filled with some of the most anti-union people in the nation. Any more, I’m numb when it comes to this gang.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:52 amAnother of hundreds of government agency employee land mines the Bushies will leave behind. The Bushbots in civil service career jobs will be harder to clear out than the cabinet appointees who will leave when the current cabal comes to an end 1/20/09.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:43 amCheney: So!!! Jesus saved the planet, now we don’t have to.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:52 amAnti-environmentalists are either christianists who are intent upon bringing on the “end times”; or they think they have some place to go, when there is no more air to breathe. But for some reason, they sincerely do not think that they personally will ever be affected by the destruction of this planet.
August 19th, 2008 at 1:22 pmcan someone tell me how sh*t like this happens??
August 19th, 2008 at 1:45 pm