a) Experience:
E. Scott Pruitt has been the Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma since 2011, and has a long career in public service. Between 1998 and 2006, Pruitt served in the Oklahoma State Senate. Prior to his career in politics, he practiced law with a specialty in Constitutional Law, Contracts, Insurance Law, Labor Law, and Litigation and Appeals.
b) Likelihood for success:
Pruitt is in denial of climate change and a close ally of the fossil fuel industry. He has been a key architect of the legal battle against Obama's climate change policies and is supporting Trump's determination to dismantle Obama's efforts to counter climate change. I think he will be successful at supporting the Trump and helping him with his efforts to "cancel" the Paris accord and take down Obama's Clean Power Plan. But looking at the rest of the world, our planet is going to be destroyed much sooner than we anticipated.
c) New policies? Help or hurt progress in that department?:
Pruitt and Trump are threatening to dismantle the EPA and roll back many of the gains made to reduce Americans' exposures to industrial pollution. Ken Cook, head of the Environmental Working Group, said Pruitt could be the most hostile EPA administrator toward clean air and safe drinking water in history. So it looks like Pruitt is going to be reversing more policies than implementing new ones. This will inevitably hurt progress in the EPA, all in all harming Americans and the entire planet.
2. Rex Tillerson (Secretary of State)
a) Experience:
President elect Trump is choosing who will represent what part of the government will represent his cabinet. Some of these decisions are said to be controversial, for example Mr.Tillerson the CEO of oil and gas company Exxon mobil has been chosen by Trump to be the Secretary of State. Tillerson has been a part of Exxonmobil since 1965 and became Chairman and CEO in 2006. The job of secretary of state is to advise the president on foreign policy. But according to his resume it will be hard to speak about pollution especially because it is ironic that his company is a large contributor to pollution in our environment.
b) Likelihood for success:
Exxon is know internationally and is one of the largest oil companies in the world. The job of the secretary of state is to serve as the president's adviser on foreign policy and to conduct negotiations related to foreign affairs. Negotiations are a big part of this job, and this job requires the secretary of state to represent the president globally with other foreign leaders. Mr.Tillerson is known world wide so people might say he is the man for the job. But Oil is on the rise again and many disputes in the middle east have been caused because of Oil.
c) New policies? Help or hurt progress in that department?:
The temptation to make business negotiations is to large, Tillerson is clearly business qualified. But the progress that will be made won't be for America. It will be for big corporations like Exxon. They will be the benefit from Tillerson not the people who voted for Trump or for the rest of America. In the article by the New York times they discuss how these decisions can cause “conflicts of interest” that may lead to business dealings and lobbying activities that could serve as a problem. This is true because the business side of the story will definitely influence decision making and certain policies that will be represented with specific countries primarily the ones with huge Oil industry partnerships.
a) Experience:
Mattis ia a 44-year old veteran of the United States Marine Corps. He capped his career as the head of the U.S. Central Command, where he was in charge of all American forces serving in the Middle East and oversaw the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
b) Likelihood for success:
Mattis was a very successful commander and is good at keeping the US as the commander of the global commons and keeping us as the most feared nation, as well as a strong ally to many. He has handled conflict in the Middle East, but at the same time we have killed a scary amount of civilians and completely mishandle the conflict there if we're trying to achieve peace. But it looks like Trump is going to be preventing terrorism in the US as much as he can and trying to accumulate as much power as he can. I guess Mattis will be good at preserving America's power.
c) New policies? Help or hurt progress in that department?:In a 2005 conference he was reported to say “I like brawling, it's fun to shoot and it's one hell of a hoot.” Mattis is clearly experienced in the war front, he has lead armies his whole career but the policies he might put into action may be more than what we are asking for. As the secretary of defense they have second power for the military right after the president. And Trump does not know the first thing about keeping America safe. Mattis is one of those people appointed that may be cause more harm than good.
Quote from article: "He is building an administration that looks a whole lot like himself." Trump and Pruitt have congruent opinions about the environment, thus there will be no one in the Trump administration trying to help the problem of climate change. This quote describes what Trump is trying to achieve. Trump has been trying to make the Government into a business. But the two do not combine. Tillerson already having partnerships with foreign leaders like Putin through business should not be the kinds of relationships being built within government. It should be about values and laws not money and oil.
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