{"id":5150,"date":"2017-02-17T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/republicans-rush-to-confirm-trumps-epa-nominee-scott-pruitt-after-federal-judge-orders-release-of-fossil-fuel-emails\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:09:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:09:05","slug":"republicans-rush-to-confirm-trumps-epa-nominee-scott-pruitt-after-federal-judge-orders-release-of-fossil-fuel-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/republicans-rush-to-confirm-trumps-epa-nominee-scott-pruitt-after-federal-judge-orders-release-of-fossil-fuel-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Los republicanos se apresuran a confirmar al candidato de Trump para la EPA, Scott Pruitt, despu\u00e9s de que un juez federal ordenara la publicaci\u00f3n de correos electr\u00f3nicos sobre combustibles f\u00f3siles."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los republicanos del Senado estaban desesperados por sacar adelante a uno de los candidatos al gabinete m\u00e1s controvertidos del presidente Donald Trump el viernes sin una investigaci\u00f3n completa de su historial, lo que confirma la EPA.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2017\/02\/17\/scott-pruitt-may-sound-reasonable-on-tv-but-trumps-epa-nominee-is-essentially-a-climate-change-denier\/\">nominado Scott Pruitt<\/a>, 52-46.<\/p>\n<p>El jueves por la noche, un juez de Oklahoma orden\u00f3 que se hicieran p\u00fablicas miles de cartas entre Pruitt y compa\u00f1\u00edas de combustibles f\u00f3siles. Es una solicitud que ha rechazado durante m\u00e1s de dos a\u00f1os hasta que el juez dijo que deb\u00eda cumplir.<\/p>\n<p>Pero los registros no se publicar\u00e1n hasta el martes.<\/p>\n<p>Los republicanos se apresuraron a lograr que el Senado confirmara a Pruitt el viernes, antes de la publicaci\u00f3n de sus registros de correo electr\u00f3nico, a pesar del tercer intento de los dem\u00f3cratas de celebrar una votaci\u00f3n que dur\u00f3 toda la noche.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/320108-democrats-want-pruitt-vote-delayed-over-emails\">marat\u00f3n de charlas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;No tenemos toda la informaci\u00f3n que necesitamos para realizar una votaci\u00f3n informada sobre esta nominaci\u00f3n&quot;, dijo el senador Jeff Merkley, dem\u00f3crata por Oregon, a los periodistas durante una conferencia de prensa el viernes. Merkley solicit\u00f3 en el pleno del Senado el viernes que la votaci\u00f3n se retrasara hasta que se publicaran todos los correos electr\u00f3nicos de Pruitt, pero el l\u00edder de la mayor\u00eda del Senado, Mitch McConnell, estuvo presente en la c\u00e1mara del Senado casi vac\u00eda, y el republicano de Kentucky objet\u00f3 la solicitud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPorque elijo no hacerlo\u201d, dijo McConnell m\u00e1s tarde cuando los periodistas le preguntaron por qu\u00e9 no pudo reprogramar la votaci\u00f3n de confirmaci\u00f3n de Pruitt hasta despu\u00e9s de la publicaci\u00f3n de sus registros.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEl esfuerzo ha sido retrasar el mayor tiempo posible las nominaciones que han hecho pol\u00e9micas\u201d, se quej\u00f3 McConnell de los dem\u00f3cratas. &quot;Quieren tener a Pruitt ah\u00ed durante el receso para que todos sus seguidores puedan expresarse&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Pruitt ha sido criticado por actuar en nombre de la industria de los combustibles f\u00f3siles, lo que ha ayudado a financiar su carrera pol\u00edtica. El tiene un&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/15012017\/scott-pruitt-epa-chief-oklahoma-attorney-general-climate-denial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">historial de demandar rutinariamente a la agencia reguladora<\/a>&nbsp;tiene la tarea de liderar,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/3290872-Pruitt-v-EPA-a-Compilation-of-Oklahoma-14.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">desafiante<\/a>&nbsp;Normas de la EPA sobre fracking, controles de la contaminaci\u00f3n de las centrales el\u00e9ctricas, l\u00edmites a las emisiones de mercurio y mejora de las regulaciones sobre agua limpia.<\/p>\n<p>Una denuncia del New York Times ganadora del Premio Pulitzer en 2014 revel\u00f3 que el entonces Fiscal General de Oklahoma, Pruitt, copi\u00f3 y peg\u00f3 cartas y documentos escritos por cabilderos de compa\u00f1\u00edas de petr\u00f3leo y gas que fueron grandes contribuyentes de su campa\u00f1a en el membrete oficial de su oficina, a menudo para reprender a los EPA. Desde entonces, Pruitt se ha negado a responder solicitudes de registros p\u00fablicos. Sin embargo, durante su proceso de confirmaci\u00f3n, Pruitt dijo repetidamente a los senadores que cualquier informaci\u00f3n adicional sobre su trabajo, particularmente sobre su trabajo en nombre de las compa\u00f1\u00edas de petr\u00f3leo y gas en Oklahoma, podr\u00eda obtenerse mediante una solicitud de la Ley de Registros Abiertos a su oficina.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;El Centro para los Medios y la Democracia, un grupo de izquierda que tiene varias solicitudes de registros pendientes ante la oficina de Pruitt que se remontan a enero de 2015, present\u00f3 una demanda la semana pasada despu\u00e9s de que se hizo evidente que los republicanos ten\u00edan la intenci\u00f3n de hacer avanzar la nominaci\u00f3n de Pruitt sin una investigaci\u00f3n completa de su historial. . Seg\u00fan el expediente judicial, el CMD aleg\u00f3 que Pruitt y su oficina continuaron \u201cnegando el acceso a registros p\u00fablicos solicitados espec\u00edficos en violaci\u00f3n de la Ley de Registros Abiertos de Oklahoma\u201d despu\u00e9s de haber presentado m\u00e1s de ocho solicitudes.<\/p>\n<p>La oficina de Pruitt sostuvo que no hab\u00eda cometido ning\u00fan delito y que s\u00f3lo estaba siguiendo el \u201csistema de orden de llegada\u201d, pero la jueza Aletia Haynes Timmons del Tribunal de Distrito del condado de Oklahoma describi\u00f3 las acciones de Pruitt como un \u201cincumplimiento abyecto de la ley\u201d. &quot;<\/p>\n<p>La oficina de Pruitt entreg\u00f3 m\u00e1s de 400 documentos a CMD el viernes pasado, despu\u00e9s de que se present\u00f3 la demanda, y uno&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lhfang\/status\/832444784631484416\">presentado<\/a>&nbsp;El jefe de gabinete de Pruitt coordin\u00f3 las preguntas \u201cblandas\u201d sobre las regulaciones del agua del senador republicano de Oklahoma James Inhofe durante una audiencia en el Congreso.<\/p>\n<p>Despu\u00e9s de la votaci\u00f3n del viernes, el presidente republicano del Comit\u00e9 Senatorial de Medio Ambiente y Obras P\u00fablicas, John Barrasso, republicano por Wyoming, asiste a una importante recaudaci\u00f3n de fondos organizada por cabilderos energ\u00e9ticos en un asador de Capitol Hill, el Intercept.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/02\/17\/after-advancing-scott-pruitt-confirmation-senator-heads-right-over-to-energy-lobbyist-fundraiser\/\">reportado<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Los senadores Joe Manchin de Virginia Occidental y Heidi Heitkamp de Dakota del Norte fueron los \u00fanicos dem\u00f3cratas que votaron a favor, mientras que la senadora republicana Susan Collins de Maine vot\u00f3 en contra.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans were desperate to push through one of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s most controversial Cabinet nominees Friday without a complete vetting of his record &mdash;&nbsp;confirming&nbsp;EPA&nbsp;nominee Scott Pruitt, 52-46. Late Thursday night, a&nbsp;judge in Oklahoma ordered thousands of letters between Pruitt and fossil fuel companies be made public.&nbsp;It&rsquo;s a request he&rsquo;s denied for more than two [&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":[45],"class_list":["post-5150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-tackling-climate-change"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Republicans rush to confirm Trump\u2019s EPA nominee Scott Pruitt after federal judge orders release of fossil fuel emails - 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\/republicans-rush-to-confirm-trumps-epa-nominee-scott-pruitt-after-federal-judge-orders-release-of-fossil-fuel-emails\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Republicans rush to confirm Trump\u2019s EPA nominee Scott Pruitt after federal judge orders release of fossil fuel emails - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Senate Republicans were desperate to push through one of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s most controversial Cabinet nominees Friday without a complete vetting of his record &mdash;&nbsp;confirming&nbsp;EPA&nbsp;nominee Scott Pruitt, 52-46. 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