Houston and environs are the nexus. Also Texas and its love deregulation and its rabid hatred of science (Texas textbooks). Also Oklahoma and its toxic elected officials who deny climate change.
Trump’s selection of Oklahoma’s Scott Pruitt to head the EPA so that he could delay risk management regulations just in time to help toxify Houston and environs (exploding vats of organic hydroxides and stuff whoopee!):
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt signed a final rule June 12 delaying a final rule amending the risk management program regulations (RIN:2050-AG82) to Feb. 19, 2019, the agency said. The decision grants requests by industry trade organizations and companies such as Marathon Petroleum, LyondellBassell Corp., Western Refining, and Koch Industries, which met with the EPA on the issue this year.
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And, more recently Trump has scooped up Jim Bridenstine, elected by the fools in the first congressional district of Oklahoma:
WASHINGTON — Jim Bridenstine, the Oklahoma Republican congressman President Trump tapped late Friday as NASA’s next administrator, is someone who champions commercial access to space, thinks a return to the moon is vital to U.S. strategic interests, and has dismissed the science behind climate change.
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And, there always and ever will be good old Senator Snowball INHOFE (Not Inouye!) of OK:
During rambling remarks Thursday afternoon, James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, used a snowball as a prop on the Senate floor. The apparent purpose of this stunt: to show the recent spate of cold weather in the Northeast is a sign that human activity isn’t causing climate change.
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In the meantime, Hurricane Irma is warming up between the Atlantic and Caribbean, Category 5, winds heading for 160 MPR, and likely to match Hurricane Harvey in the annals of nasty hurricanes.