Trumps cabinet picks so far too, are disgusting. Steve Bannon, jesus, help us all, and the fact that Sara Palin, is even being considered.....:no: After his 60 mins interview, many of his voters should be ashamed! He now refers to the Clintons as good people....What happened to the she devil, the criminal, the "crooked Hilary? Now it's fine if the wall is a fence,lol, and I thought he was "going to empty the swamp". Yet he is filling his cabinet with lobbyist, after lobbyist. He must of meant he was going to empty the swamp into his cabinet.....lol. What a joke!
and just wait to see what he does with the EPA..... the environment is going to suffer under his rule
quote-Trump has amassed a long and highly instructive list of advisers; many of them are also his leading campaign contributors. They're a wily bunch of extremist climate-change denialists, fossil-fuel supremacists, and at least one Koch Industries lobbyist, as well as Gordon Gekko-types who buy distressed oil companies, strip them for parts and sell them for a tidy profit. And they're all looking to cash in on some extremely well timed pro-oil hoopla from the GOP nominee.
quote-During her failed bid for vice president in 2008, that was Sarah Palin's crowd-pleasing chant promoting her energy policy. Now the pithy catchphrase – and the former Alaska governor herself – could make a comeback.
News reports say Palin is on President-elect Donald Trump's short list to head the Interior Department. As secretary of the interior, she'd be in charge of overseeing oil drilling, uranium mining and other energy extraction on 500 million acres of public land, including iconic national parks like the Grand Canyon.
The pro-mining policies Trump and Palin could be expected to bring to Interior would mean EWG and other public land advocates would have to resume a fight we thought President Obama's administration settled in 2012.
Under President George W. Bush, the Interior Department tried to open up uranium mines near the south rim of the Canyon. It was a scheme that even The Arizona Republic, once a champion of the so-called “Wise Use” movement, denounced as “one of the seven blunders of the world.”
If Trump does make moves to open up uranium mining around the Grand Canyon, Palin wouldn't stand in his way, judging from her quip in 2011 about opening the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling: “If a caribou needs to be sacrificed for the sake of energy independence, I say, ‘Mr. Caribou, maybe you need to take one for the team.’”