Members of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team are interviewing candidates to head up the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). While media reports indicate the president-elect has narrowed the field down to two candidates, a new name is on the lips of some on Trump’s transition team: Dr. Donald van der Vaart.
Van der Vaart is a PhD chemical engineer who currently heads the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. If appointed and approved by Congress, Van der Vaart would be the first PhD scientist to head EPA. He also holds a law degree.
Sources close to Trump’s transition team said van der Vaart would put a halt to overreaching regulations and the so-called “secret science” EPA relies on to push ever-stricter rules on businesses.
“He can see right through this stuff,” a source told The Daily Caller News Foundation, arguing van der Vaart would be critical of any shoddy science coming out of the agency.
I was hoping for Ted Nugent to head the EPA.
Trump is just kicking ASS and he ain’t even in yet.
This is impossible. Appointing someone to head the EPA who really understands science. What next? A supreme court nominee who understands the constitution!
Liquidate the EPA.
Why does a certain scene from The Wizard of Oz come to my mind?…
…something about pay no attention to that little man behind the curtain…
Let the great reveal begin!
All of the above!
just be careful on the pronunciation of his name…
Weren’t cow vaarts supposed to be contributing to high methane levels in the atmosphere?
🙂
How can he run the EPA without an MA in LGBTQ studies from Swarthmore College?!!! Preposterous!!!…
“Van der Vaart would be the first PhD scientist to head EPA. ”
That blows My Effin Mind…and explains a lot about the EPA’s decisions over the years,