EPA scientists shocked by decision after Trump’s meeting, sources say

The EPA told staff scientists it was no longer opposing a controversial Alaska mining project that could devastate one of the world's most valuable wild salmon fisheries just one day after President Donald Trump met with Alaska's governor, CNN has learned. The news came as a "total shock" to some top EPA scientists who were planning to oppose the project on environmental grounds, according to sources. CNN's Drew Griffin reports.

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    1. You’re right. He doesn’t care. Well, not about you and me. Or anybody else.

      The USA has deep and fundamental urgent problems. It doesn’t take a genius to recognize these. It does however need an understanding of a wider context.

      Does Trump use his experience and knowledge to try and address this? Yes! But he is found wanting. As businessman and as politician. Why?

      Trump’s ‘strategy’ is very predictive and transparent. His claim to keeping his opponents in the dark is delusional. Trump is an open book. Not Shakespeare. One with pictures and connect-the-dot puzzles.

      1.Trump’s strategy is to define a ‘problem’ according to his definition. He frames the problem. Chooses the words to describe it or not to describe it.
      2. He creates the environment and context of ‘problems’.
      3. He sets the agenda how the ‘problem’ should be addressed eg talking points, time frame, what, when, where, how, who.
      4. He isn’t interested in solving the ‘problem’ that he originally created — it is his playground — it is the reason why he is president. The reason why he is still president of the USA.
      5. Unexpected and real problems are framed and described not as problems. Trump doesn’t have the ability or the integrity to face reality. This is why Trump is a different person when he goes off script, when he isn’t in telepromt mode, when he is faced with real people in real suffering with real emotions. That is when Trump exposes his emotional 1770 airports, his Don Quixote windmill giants. And goes where he is safe: Me, me, me, me…
      6. His whole regime is subservient to him as he has effectively silenced dissent and alternative opinions with ‘you are fired’-threats via his tweets.

      Trump is a master in controlling the political agenda. Not only in the USA, but also globally where he has to promote his interests. His skill in dominating how conflict — real, potential or as threat — is focussed on how these conflicts are structured by rules that suits him. The main objective for Trump is to exploit preferred kinds of conflict enabling him to create a competitive advantage, to create a monopolistic position and to mobilize bias in the ‘management’ of these ‘problems’ with the effect that he determine what is ‘in’ and what is ‘out’ — his own preferred problem priorities as opportunities!

      Indeed, he who determines what politics is about — and not about — runs the country!

      Central to Trump’s ‘problem management’ — and the creation of ‘problems’ — is the wish for personal gain and advantage through the artificial manafactured ‘problem’. A ‘problem’ that is manufactured mainly by a appeal to a perceived ‘unfairness’ in the distribution of resources.

      The manufacturing of problems is always and exclusively triggered by the following ‘triggers’: technological changes, ecological changes, natural disasters, imbalance in distribution of resources, unanticipated human events, innovations in weapons technology, patterns of world allignment, international conflict, and war. This is Trump’s playground!

      Trump’s cynical ‘policy’ is to create a link. A link between these triggers and a ‘grievance’ or ‘problem’ which transforms the issue into an agenda item meriting attention — legitimizing his jurisdiction and governmental authority.

      Using Twitter as medium Trump is able to expand the ‘issue’ to an attentive public using messages that are specifically aimed to be: ambiguous (reaching an expanded public), socially significant, non-technical, lacking a clear precedent.

      Where Trump experience push back or is confronted with his ‘manufacturing of problems’, his approach is primarily to discredit the person or group if he isn’t or wasn’t able to co-opt these persons or leaders. Critique is eliminated through a ‘You’re fired’- management style.

      The language used in expanding the ‘problem’ to his base is through symbols that provoke strong positive or negative reactions that arouse concern, provoke action, dissuade opposition and project a ‘strength’ of commitment and support. The ‘problem’ has become visible, the problem has become reality a-la-Apprentice Reality Show!

    2. OUTDATED AND DESTRUCTIVE, STUPID.
      OLD SCOTTISH RITE/CELTIC VIEW; IE, #MOSCOWMITCH BABBLED HIS CARELESSNESS OF OTHER’S FUTURE ….

    1. SumNPCLibtardSoyboyDemoncratCuckwhojerksittoWaifus – Imagine unironically starting every response with imagine unironically to try and sound intelligent, while not even being able to spell the word ‘literally’LOL!!

      Nice virtue signaling, but leftist cucks like you seem to forget that slaves in America were originally enslaved and sold here by blacks. There is no ‘racist oppression’ in America, it’s just a fake narrative that losers like you follow because it makes you feel righteous. And to also sucker democratic votes from gullible blacks who don’t even realize that democrats are the ones who wanted slavery to continue in America ROTFL!! (Here comes the part where you insert the leftist lie “BUT M-M-MUH PARTIES SWITCHED IDEOLOGIES”) LOL!!

      And slavery still goes on to this day in Africa, yet never a peep from you virtue signaling race baiting leftist losers about that. How hilarious to be called dumb by some underdeveloped, feeble, self-righteous commie loser who can’t even spell simple words, lives in his mother’s cellar playing with himself to cartoon porn, and has zero original thought in their warped mind, only capable of regurgitating leftist propaganda talking points ROTFL!! Epic comedy!! The world views you have are about as real as that cartoon porn you fap off to nightly..you’re a perfect example of why the whole world is laughing at you scum 👍😆🍿

    1. 143freespeech nobuts you are joking aren’t you? Republicans don’t care about the poor generally speaking.

  1. Copper mining is very destructive to the land. Don’t allow this to happen. Seems like Alaskan’s got what they voted for… another dirty republican

    1. @Matthew Pickeral wtf what does epa certified mean. I have worked in transmission and distribution of electricity for over 35 years never heard of that in in terms of electricity distribution?

    2. @santiagowechsler so you rather have politicians destroy another environment/ecosystem for luxuries? Will those luxuries matter after all the trees, fresh, clean water, air, and food are no longer available?🤔 Use critical thinking skills before you answer this.

    1. Pink Rose sold by our president and the money will not go to Americans unless he likes you

  2. I think only two things mattered to Trump in this situation. 1) There’s a lot of money to make. 2) Obama was the one who wanted to protect the area.

    Yeah, his main motivator in life is money, but his rivalries with Obama and Hillary Clinton are almost as strong. He’s still in the process of undoing everything Obama did as president.

    1. I’m fed up with the hatret on the left and blatent calls for racism and white surpremacy i”m gonna vote trump for the first time just to make a statement

    2. Kaiza was but…it was a LIE, the outrage, the wacist stuff, remember the whole “infested” nonsense? wussia? U really don’t care?

    3. Kaiza but…it was a LIE, the outrage, the wacist stuff, remember the whole “infested” nonsense? wussia? U really don’t care?

    1. @Dave Waldon …nah, it’s a nice relatively nice area. Lived in Thailand, Georgia, Germany, Virginia. And back in Ga, where I grew up.

    2. dial  Where did I say I hate this country ? Lol If it bothers you this much, you’re gonna miss alot of life out there. No worries, I’ll pray for ya

    1. @Marvin Gaye unfortunately they are a part of this country too…if we dont ALL get it together our children will suffer even more than we are right now…

    2. If you ask me the election of our current president was a serious wake-up call. I used to try to calm people down about president #43, saying he could have been so much worse, and now I’m sure.

      The problem is the hyperbole liberals used to bash George W. Bush now makes them sound like the boy who cried wolf; when you describe a category 3 hurricane as apocalyptic, what is there left to say when a category 5 blows through?

    3. They have already walked off the cliff. They just haven’t hit the bottom yet. And they aren’t sleep walking. It is like that scene in Dr Strangelove where Slim Pickens is whooping and hollering as he rides a nuclear bomb to his doom.

  3. It’s not mind-boggling!! You answered your own damn question … Obama put it in place, that’s why he f*cking did it!! 😡
    I swear this country has a mass dementia problem … 😖

    1. The truth is, the liberals have done a terrible job with the situation they’ve been in the last 2 years. Instead of gaining sympathy for your side, as a whole they’ve screamed and lied about all kinds of nonsense and most Americans are straight-up sick of it. Now, here’s a legitimate concern that I don’t even like, but who’s going to listen to you guys now? You’re an echo chamber, and the rest of the country thinks the left ‘done lost its mind.

  4. Shameless vandalism and corrupt destruction of the environment…and all for a short term financial hit for Trumps buddies.
    Drain the swamp eh?

    1. @Downright Dutch
      Once you said it exposed the “Russiagate” was a fraud by the democratic party, I knew you were nothing but an ignorant hillbilly parroting Trump propaganda. The Mueller report VERFIED the meeting with Russians you idiot.

    2. @joeythehat9 How funny, you vote Republican and still want talk like you care for the environment. And then you call on the Democrats to save the environment. I bet at election time you will still vote Republican even though they support healthcare only to those who can afford it, more air pollution from cars, water pollution poisoning coal families, fracking even though it is causing earthquakes in areas that never had earthquakes, AND Off Shore drilling in one of the last pristine places on the planet.
      You will vote Republican because your short term profit is okay at the expense of the environment.

  5. Everything Trump touches dies. And that’s not an exaggeration. I just hope that there will be something left of this country when he’s gone. It’s going to be up to the people of Alaska to prevent this from happening.

    1. Fake news from the wild right? ROTFWLMAO! You blind to Trump’s hypocrisy and disregard for human life, narcissistic personality, and consistent validation of all your fears, hate, and ridiculous conspiracy theories, bro?

    2. Thank you, Bill, for being self-conscious. You’re still a Trump-loving animal, but none of them can be honest about themselves.

  6. What’s the point in having an E.P.A?? Bypassing all enviromental concerns for $$$$$$$$ is what it boils down to. WHAT IS THIS COUNTRY COMING TO ??????

    1. Your great grandparents were venting CFC’s into the atmosphere long before Trump was president.

    1. @Dave Waldon
      Other than him being BLACK, what didn’t you like about him? Trumpturds and racists blame Obama for the DUMPSTER FIRE BUSH left in HIS wake. INSTEAD if acknowledging that blatantly obvious elephant in the room you RETARDS put it on OBAMA. Then wherever progress Obama actually made you eantvti credit TRUMP. When he isn’t taking. CREDIT fur something Obama did he’s trying to destroy just because his name us on it. What’s with you RACISTS? Is it penis envy? Your fragile self esteems are beyong ridiculous, One obvious thing Trump despises about Obama is he is everything HE WISHES he could be that he knows he CAN’T. Even Melania follows Obama on Twitter…..LMAO

    2. @William H as a non American I can tell you with certainty america is not respected and its because of trump, here in Ireland and across Europe people are laughing at trump and americans for being stupid enough to follow him

    1. @Mike Knight wow that was stupid. They are POLLUTING AND KILLING our food RESOURCES!! How stupid are you right wingers? If left up to you dumbasses, we’ll ALL be eating Soylent Green in a few years!!!!

  7. You want to see the swamp. There it is right in front of the whole world to see. Corruption at the highest levels

  8. This is a DISASTER! Another instance of IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE caused by TRUMP. Remember November 2020!

    1. It isn’t lost yet!! Do something about it, don’t just sit there and watch its destruction!! Environmental agencies are going to sue the administration, let’s support them with money and whatever they need!

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