{"id":4826,"date":"2017-10-06T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/watch-a-top-epa-nominee-embarrass-himself-with-feigned-ignorance-of-basic-facts\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:08:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:08:38","slug":"watch-a-top-epa-nominee-embarrass-himself-with-feigned-ignorance-of-basic-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/watch-a-top-epa-nominee-embarrass-himself-with-feigned-ignorance-of-basic-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Vea a uno de los principales nominados de la EPA avergonzarse con una ignorancia fingida de los hechos b\u00e1sicos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-reactid=\".ti.1.0.1.2.0.0.1.0.4.$p-0\">\n<p><span><span>WILLIAM WEHRUM ES<\/span>&nbsp;la elecci\u00f3n de la administraci\u00f3n Trump para encabezar la Oficina de Aire y Radiaci\u00f3n de la Agencia de Protecci\u00f3n Ambiental. &quot;Bill&quot;, la primera l\u00ednea de su biograf\u00eda en su bufete de abogados,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hunton.com\/en\/people\/william-wehrum.html\">Hunton &amp; Williams, se jacta,<\/a>&nbsp;\u201ces bien conocido por su profundo conocimiento de los problemas ambientales\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>En su audiencia de confirmaci\u00f3n en el Senado esta semana, Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., puso a prueba esa afirmaci\u00f3n.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>el senador<\/span>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenJeffMerkley\/status\/915704243335700481\">producido<\/a><span>&nbsp;un gr\u00e1fico grande de Wehrum de la NASA, que rastrea los niveles de emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero y el calentamiento desde 1880 hasta 2005. Las l\u00edneas se suceden bastante de cerca, incluido un aumento espectacular durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX y principios del XXI. \u201c\u00bfPuede reconocer\u201d, pregunt\u00f3 Merkley, \u201cque estas l\u00edneas generalmente se rastrean entre s\u00ed?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNo estoy familiarizado con esos datos. No tengo idea de lo que representa\u201d, responde Wehrum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Merkley pincha. \u201cPero puedes ver las l\u00edneas. \u00bfLas l\u00edneas se rastrean entre s\u00ed?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLo importante, senador, es saber c\u00f3mo se representan los datos\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&quot;S\u00ed, lo es&quot;, est\u00e1 de acuerdo Merkley, &quot;pero solo estoy haciendo una pregunta: \u00bfPuedes ver esas dos l\u00edneas y, por lo general, se rastrean entre s\u00ed?&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-reactid=\".ti.1.0.1.2.0.0.1.0.4.$p-2\">\n<p>Wehrum no responde la pregunta, lo que lleva a Merkley a renunciar a su l\u00ednea de investigaci\u00f3n relacionada con gr\u00e1ficos por otra. \u201cLo que vemos es esta determinaci\u00f3n inspirada por el hermano Koch de no reconocer ni siquiera los hechos m\u00e1s fundamentales. \u2026 \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 el pueblo estadounidense deber\u00eda poner en una oficina de influencia significativa a alguien que se niega a mirar directamente los hechos que son tan importantes para la salud de este planeta?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComo dije, estos son temas complejos y muy importantes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00ed que Merkley trat\u00f3 de hacerlo un poco menos complejo y le pregunt\u00f3 a Wehrum si reconoce una serie de hechos cient\u00edficos b\u00e1sicos sobre las tendencias ecol\u00f3gicas recientes relacionadas con el aumento de las temperaturas: la creciente acidificaci\u00f3n del oc\u00e9ano, el aumento de las capas de nieve en las monta\u00f1as de las cascadas, las temporadas de incendios m\u00e1s largas. Wehrum, de nuevo, no responde, diciendo sobre la acidificaci\u00f3n del oc\u00e9ano que \u00e9l es consciente de que &quot;hay una acusaci\u00f3n&quot;, antes de ser interrumpido.<\/p>\n<p><span>Como sugiere Merkley, es muy probable que Wehrum no sea tan est\u00fapido como su testimonio le har\u00eda creer. \u201cEs dif\u00edcil lograr que un hombre entienda algo, cuando su salario depende de que no lo entienda\u201d, escribi\u00f3 Upton Sinclair. Wehrum tiene<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/19\/science\/epa-chemical-industry-dourson.html\">&nbsp;representado<\/a><span>&nbsp;una serie de intereses de la industria de combustibles f\u00f3siles, del Instituto Americano del Petr\u00f3leo, Kinder Morgan, la Asociaci\u00f3n Estadounidense de Bosques y Papel, y empresas de servicios el\u00e9ctricos en<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/sites\/default\/files\/william-wehrum-lawsuits-in-federal-appellate-courts_2017-09-19.pdf\">&nbsp;demandando a la EPA<\/a><span>en la lucha contra una serie de regulaciones, algunas de las cuales su nuevo trabajo le dar\u00eda la autoridad para desmantelar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Entre sus otros casos, estuvo uno en el que represent\u00f3 a asociaciones comerciales de la industria en la lucha contra las normas de la Administraci\u00f3n de Salud y Seguridad Ocupacional que limitaban la cantidad de s\u00edlice a la que los trabajadores pueden estar expuestos en el trabajo, y otro desaf\u00edo a las normas de la Administraci\u00f3n de Salud y Seguridad Minera. Tambi\u00e9n trabaj\u00f3 hace m\u00e1s de una d\u00e9cada para tratar de impedir que California implementara est\u00e1ndares vehiculares m\u00e1s estrictos. En otro momento de su audiencia de confirmaci\u00f3n, Wehrum objet\u00f3 cuando la senadora de California Kamala Harris le pregunt\u00f3 si se comprometer\u00eda a no tratar de deshacer las regulaciones estatales m\u00e1s estrictas sobre la calidad del aire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>En particular, Wehrum es uno de los principales cr\u00edticos del hallazgo de peligro, un fallo de la Corte Suprema de 2007 que otorga a la EPA la autoridad para regular las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero. Retirar esa autoridad es visto como un premio para muchos grupos de la industria que Wehrum ha representado y que, seg\u00fan los informes, se han sentido molestos. El administrador de la EPA, Scott Pruitt, no se ha movido m\u00e1s r\u00e1pido para desmantelarla.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Despu\u00e9s de haber estado en la EPA durante los a\u00f1os de Bush en el mismo trabajo, Wehrum podr\u00eda estar incluso mejor posicionado que Pruitt para enfrentar el hallazgo de peligro de frente, todo con el respaldo de los opositores de la agencia y personas externas que ahora dirigen uno de los principales reguladores de la naci\u00f3n. Tambi\u00e9n se espera que act\u00fae como una especie de puente entre los administradores de carrera y el equipo de Pruitt, ayudando a allanar el camino para la agenda anti-regulatoria de su jefe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Pero tiene que ser confirmado primero.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNadie puede mirar lo que est\u00e1 sucediendo en el planeta y ver que no est\u00e1 pasando nada a menos que est\u00e9 deliberadamente decidido a ignorar esa informaci\u00f3n\u201d, concluy\u00f3 Merkley el mi\u00e9rcoles. \u201cY eso te hace, francamente, inaceptable para servir en esta capacidad\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WILLIAM WEHRUM IS&nbsp;the Trump administration&rsquo;s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency&rsquo;s Office of Air and Radiation. &ldquo;Bill,&rdquo; the first line of his bio at his law firm,&nbsp;Hunton &amp; Williams, boasts,&nbsp;&ldquo;is well known for his thorough grasp of environmental issues.&rdquo; In his Senate confirmation hearing this week, Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., put that claim to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Watch a Top EPA Nominee Embarrass Himself with Feigned Ignorance of Basic Facts - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/watch-a-top-epa-nominee-embarrass-himself-with-feigned-ignorance-of-basic-facts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Watch a Top EPA Nominee Embarrass Himself with Feigned Ignorance of Basic Facts - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WILLIAM WEHRUM IS&nbsp;the Trump administration&rsquo;s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency&rsquo;s Office of Air and Radiation. &ldquo;Bill,&rdquo; 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