Glamour, one of the country’s leading women’s magazines, is using its platforms to mobilize readers to oppose Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
While the mainstream media often seems baffled by how to respond to team Trump and their alternative facts, non-traditional outlets have caught on to this new landscape much faster. For instance, Teen Vogue has been killing it with pieces like, “Here’s how to call the president while the White House comment line is closed.”
Glamour Magazine, which has a paid circulation of over two million, ran “Why I’m worried sick about Scott Pruitt’s nomination to lead the EPA” by actress and activist Amber Valletta on Friday. In introducing the piece, Glamour explains that one goal is to show readers “how you can help voice your concerns.”
The piece ends: “Please tell your senators to oppose Scott Pruitt’s nomination to head the Environmental Protect Agency at www.sierraclub.org/pruitt.” Glamour also explained to its five million Facebook followers, “Here’s what you can do if you oppose Pruitt’s nomination.”
Valetta, a Sierra Club ambassador, is from Oklahoma, where Pruitt is attorney general. She notes that “one of his first actions upon taking office was to strip his own office’s Environmental Enforcement Unit of funding.” Rather than “work to protect ordinary Oklahomans, he has consistently defended fossil fuel corporations instead.”
Valetta says that while she didn’t vote for Trump, “many mothers like me did,” but adds “I refuse to believe that any of those mothers did so in the hope of seeing more sick kids or needless deaths.” She warns that by approving Pruitt, we would lose “what could be our last best chance to act on climate change” along with “our status as a global leader in developing the clean, renewable energy sources of the future.”
Her bottom line: If we let Pruitt and Trump destroy EPA protections, “Our children, who have no choice but to place their trust in us to protect their future, would rightly feel betrayed.”