Click here for Charlie Pierce's article at Esquire entitled "This Is a City, State, and Federal Sh*tshow for Democrats."
For his energy and environmental policy team, Trump has selected one of the nation's most prominent climate contrarians, Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, to head his EPA transition. Ebell worked on policy for the tobacco industry before his years of work opposing environmental regulations and sowing doubt on climate science. Trump is also reported to be considering Harold Hamm, chief executive of fracking industry leader Continental Resources, for energy secretary, and Forrest Lucas, co-founder of oil products company Lucas Oil, for interior secretary.
UPDATE: Kris Kobach of Kansas (Charlie Pierce calls him an "all-purpose authoritarian"), one of the harshest of all anti-immigrants, as a member of the "immigration policy transition team"; Ed Meese -- my God, the man still has a pulse? -- "heading a Trump transition group focused on the Executive Office of the President, which includes the Office of Management and Budget"; Secretary of Education, Ben Carson; Attorney General, Pam Bondi (of Trump University non-prosecution fame); Secretary of Energy, Harold Hamm (who pioneered the fracking of the Bakken formation, kicking off the fracking frenzy); and SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, SARAH PALIN.
These names were obtained by BuzzFeed; there's speculation that at least some of them (looking at you, Sarah) were just intended to "create buzz."
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