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    The letter to the Environmental Protection Agency from Attorney General Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma carried a blunt accusation: Federal regulators were grossly overestimating the amount of air pollution caused by energy companies drilling new natural gas wells in his state.

    But Mr. Pruitt left out one critical point. The three-page letter was written by lawyers for Devon Energy, one of Oklahoma’s biggest oil and gas companies, and was delivered to him by Devon’s chief of lobbying.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/…

    Now selected by Trump to run the EPA....this guy will be in charge of keeping your air and water clean.

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    • big article. not a thing about the overestimation or process or explanation or counter argument... instead they focused on typical partisan noisedeathboy
    • What's the counter argument for letting oil companies run the government?yuekit
    • This is pure corporate cronyism even if you don't care about the environmental issues.yuekit
    • its cronyism. but remember that its two sided competitive cronyism. you have business interests on both sidesdeathboy
    • however cronyism is nothing new, im more curious about the way it measured. that can tell me which is offensive cronyism vs defensive cronyismdeathboy
    • Great another climate denier...this administration is going to be a epic disaster from top to bottom.utopian
    • yuekit do you think this is solid unbiased journalism? no weight to any particular partisan side?deathboy
    • Actually the article does quote people defending him...but kind of beside the point.yuekit
    • If someone writes an article about corruption, does half the article need to be devoted to coming up with reasons why corruption is a good thing?yuekit
    • no but it must give equal weight to parties involved in corruption. i think its obvious the article is written with partisan bias, id call this grade A contentdeathboy
    • creation. its not half assed, it has minimal research focused on its bias. it touches just enough for feeling while keeping the narrative hazydeathboy
    • The NYT is the paper that broke the Clinton email story originally...so it's not as if they never criticize Democrats.yuekit
    • what i would depict as good journalism for it would be the measures. see what measures were and wether he was fighting against corrupt regulationsdeathboy
    • or wether he was fighting against regulations that made sense.than go in to see what he believes, but i preferred to choose associations over evidencedeathboy
    • says plenty about the objective of the article. to me this is fake news. partisan content creation for media agency. media hires pro left & right to write suchdeathboy
    • garbage soley to generate clicks and sell ads. hell i can see the copy head saying you write pro on this and you neg on this by noon. journalism mostly deaddeathboy
    • but I, = * but he(author)... I dont fall for associations * collar pop*deathboy
    • lol...he copied and pasted a lobbyist press release while being paid by taxpayers. How is that not corruption or real news?yuekit
    • Ironically this idea that corporate influence is what is good for the country is exactly how establishment politicians think.yuekit
    • And what Trump was supposedly running against...drain the swap etcyuekit
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