If Pruitt goes, Cathy Stepp would be perfect new EPA chief

If when the grotesquely-anti-science, robotically-pro-industry US EPA boss Scott Pruitt gets his dream job replacing Jeff Sessions as Attorney General - - or is fired by the always unpredictable Trump fired for spending too much public dough on himself or wearing the boss's britches - - Trump may look no farther for a replacement than to the equally anti-science, similarly-pro-industry and proven-Trump-worshipping EPA Region Five director Cathy Stepp.

Think about it: She's already had one promotion from EPA regional deputy director in Kansas City to the more important Chicago-based Great Lakes regional directorship, and can check all the important Pruitt-Trump boxes, especially the first and biggest:

Spoke glowingly for Trump

• 
  6:16 PM - 28 Sep 2016

  Jessie Opoien@jessieopie

  "This is our time, ladies." — WI DNR Sec. Cathy Stepp at @realDonaldTrump rally in Waukesha
• 
  6:14 PM - 28 Sep 2016

  Molly Beck@MollyBeck

  "We also want a leader, a competent one, who understands and respects classified information," says Stepp.
• 
  6:14 PM - 28 Sep 2016

  Jessie Opoien@jessieopie

  WI DNR Sec. Cathy Stepp at Trump rally asks women if they're tired of being lectured to by media, liberal groups to vote for Clinton.

And:

Is suitably anti-science.

Is suitably environment-be-damned, anti-regulation and pro-business.

Is suitably anti-labor.

Has treated public employees like dirt.

Like Trump, has managed businesses, including home building and a McDonalds.

Has enabled water pollution.

Has enabled air pollution.

Demonstrated a rare ability: to strategically and ideologically suck up to the boss while also dissembling, looking forward and simultaneously in the rear view mirror - - which no doubt hits all of Trump's buttons:

I am deeply grateful to Governor Walker for believing in my abilities when he named me to the post of DNR Secretary over 6 ½ years ago.  We’ve demonstrated how we can have job creation and environmental protection. I’m excited and humbled at the opportunity to bring many of the reforms we’ve implemented in DNR to the national scene.