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NJ Spotlight again trotted out former Governor Whitman to denounce Trump EPA regulatory rollbacks (viewer warning: the hypocrisy may kill you. Watch the whole interview).
Whitman found the rollbacks “unconscionable” and warned that “people will die” from pollution.
She blasted the Trump EPA for ignoring science, particularly with respect to repealing EPA’s “endangerment finding“, which serves as the legal basis for EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions.
Whitman is driven by pathological guilt and an inability to admit, apologize for, and atone for her record.
Her remarks are sickening – and NJ Spotlight’s editorial decision to broadcast the interview with no context or qualifications – are rank and intolerable hypocrisy and journalistic malpractice.
Those interested in the details and receipts are referred to this post, which I wrote back in 2018 when NJ Spotlight and Whitman pulled the same stunt:
[Full Disclosure: Whitman’s DEP Commissioner, Bob Shinn, forced me out of DEP in 1994 as a whistleblower for disclosing documents that: 1) exposed Whitman’s repeated and knowing lies about the public health risks – including to pregnant women – of exposure to toxic mercury in fish, including Whitman’s hand written notes in the margins of critical newspaper articles; and 2) DEP’s cynical and corrupt plan to cover up the science and mount a public relations campaign to dupe the public.
This all was written down in a memo from Commissioner Shinn to Gov. Whitman.
I have sworn testimony from former DEP Assistant Commissioner Richard Sinding who wrote the memo – including flat out knowing scientific falsehoods about the health risks of toxic mercury – at the direction of Shinn.
So, yes, thirty one years later, I still have an ax to grind – a very sharp one.