AFTER ROLLING DOWNMARKET FOR A DECADE
AFTER HIS EJECTION FROM A MOUNT PELERIN
SUMMIT MEETING, THE JUNK SCIENCE JUNKETEER
HAS BOTTOMED OUT IN THE SWAMP

Steve Milloy doesn't like 'climate bedwetters'

Scott Waldman, E&E News reporter

Published: Tuesday, June 12, 2018The former securities lawyer and Trump EPA transition official has held significant sway over some of the agency's major policy moves under Administrator Scott Pruitt.

There is a mountain of science that says he's wrong...

So for years, Milloy... a former executive at the Murray Energy Corp. coal company, had no real influence at EPA. Instead, the agency served as a useful target of his ire.

Then Trump was elected.

With Pruitt expressing empathy toward industry, Milloy has helped muster some major changes at EPA. He's largely unknown to the public, a symptom, perhaps, of toiling for years in obscurity. His daily Twitter feed is a mix of attacks on communism, liberals and "climate bedwetters." He also posts frequent exclamations of triumph.

Like these:

Trump rolls back a policy by President Obama that sought to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. "WINNING!!" Milloy writes.

A judge lifts a ban on coal exports at a port in Oakland, Calif. "WINNING!!"
Pruitt will get "Secret Science" out of EPA. Very "YUGE WINNING!!"

"Thank God for President @realDonaldTrump,"

In the past, Milloy was a hired crusader helping companies ... He wouldn't disclose who his funders are in a recent interview, allowing only that they include "private foundations."

In April, Milloy was in the audience at EPA headquarters when Pruitt proposed a rule that would restrict some types of science that the agency can use to craft regulations... They were in the Rachel Carson Green Room, named after the famed environmentalist, who Milloy said "misrepresented the existing science on bird reproduction and was wrong about DDT causing cancer."... He tweeted:

Climate skeptic barbarians @junkscience and @climatedepot. Not just at the EPA's gate, but inside the administrator's office eating the greens' lunch....

I don't even know that I'm representative of anything, because I'm the only person I know that has been doing whatever is I've been doing for the last 25 years,"

"For me, it's been this tremendous educational experience. When I die, I'm not going to sit there and wonder what that was all about. I have been fortunate that I have been able to do this continuing education on scholarship in a way. The fact that my ideas have now gained traction in government and are going to be part of public policy, well, that's awesome.

Who in Washington could ask for more?