Former EPA Transition Official Questions Pruitt's Plan For Climate Debate

July 25, 2017
A former Trump EPA transition team official is taking issue with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's plans to conduct a “red team, blue team” debate of climate change science, arguing the approach would politicize the issue, is outside of EPA's authority and would result in too shallow of a critique of mainstream findings that human-released greenhouse gases are the primary cause of global warming. Instead, David Schnare -- the former senior transition adviser who resigned from the Trump team in March...


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