take down outrage magnetandfearfulEnvironmental Protection Agency leaderScott Pruittreportedly want to change his agency ’s challenge coin — a memento that storage locker member and other luxuriously - rank officials make to give out for special occasions and to Guest .
Pruitt would wish the new EPA challenge coin to be enceinte and be , in thewords of the New York Timeswhich break the news , “ less EPA , more Pruitt . ” Here ’s the vision for what would appear on one side of the coin :
Among the possibilities : a American bison , to raise Mr. Pruitt ’s native Oklahoma , and a Bible verse to muse his faith .
Image: Chris Davidson/Maddie Stone
Other ideas include using the Great Seal of the United States — a design similar to the presidential seal — and putting Mr. Pruitt ’s name around the rim in expectant letters , accord to Ronald Slotkin , a career E.P.A. employee who retired this yr , and two masses familiar with the proposal who asked to remain anon. because they said theyfeared vengeance .
In comparison , his predecessor , Gina McCarthy , had a bunch of hands bear up the globe . bureau logos are traditionally on the other side of the coin , but apparently Pruitt thought the EPA logo look too much like a ganja leaf so he want to get rid of it , too .
Which , really ? Have you even examine weed , Scott Pruitt ? Do you even handle about the authority you track down ?
( The answer to the last two dubiousness is obviously no . )
The news comes on the heels of a string of scandals that havesomehow not gotten Scott Pruitt fired , and which are but a taste of all the terrible ways he hasrunroughovertheEPA’smissiontoprotecttheenvironmentandpublichealthandsuckeduptoindustry . No wonder he does n’t want the EPA logotype on the coin !
But wait , we here at Earther understand the man needs to show himself . We ’re not monster ! So to honor Scott Pruitt ’s many efforts to cave his agency , destroy public reliance in government , and own the libs , we would like to humbly offer up some ideas for his challenge coin .
A Water Fountain Overflowing With Sludge
A Burning Earth
Just an Earth that is on firing . evermore . — Danielle Steinberg , Senior Producer
A $45,000 Soundproof Booth
I ’m torn . I love a in effect dirt but I also acknowledge Scott Pruitt it doing lasting damage . So permit ’s break the dispute . I ’m going withhis secret phone booth , a memorial to uneconomical expenditure , the lack of transparency with which he ’s launch the agency and all the ways he ’s bent over backwards to accommodate large , polluting corporation he ’s presuppose to be regulating . Now if only we had a picture of it … — Brian Kahn , Senior Reporter
A Stack of Unfilled Records Requests
A Kid From Flint
How about the face of acrying child from Flint , Michigan ? Maybe she ’s crying from sempiternal doctors appointments to rule out principal poisoning . Maybe she ’s crying about the rash on her arm . irrespective , the EPA failed her — and the rest of the shaver — then , and they ’re not doing anything toprevent future Flints now . — Yessenia Funes , Staff Reporter
A Head In the Sand
Scott Pruitt , Head of Environmental Protection Agency . Closed Eyes . Black Hearts . Ca n’t Lose . — Stephen Michael , Producer
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