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PROBLEM: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt  will have a soundproof communication booth. (Susan Walsh/AP)
The Environmental Protection Agency is spending nearly $25 000 to construct a secure  soundproof communications booth in the office of  Administrator Scott Pruitt   according to government contracting records.
 Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt  addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 25 in Oxon Hill  Md. (The Washington Post)
In recent months   Pruitt  and  his  top deputies have taken other steps aimed at heightening security. Some EPA employees have been asked to surrender their cellphones and other digital devices before meetings in the administrator’s office  in much the same way visitors do when visiting the president in the Oval Office.
[ Scott Pruitt  says  it ’s not the time to talk climate change. For  him    it  never is.]
 Pruitt  also has shied away from using email at EPA  often preferring to deliver instructions verbally and hold face-to-face meetings. The shift stems in part from public disclosure by the New York Times in 2014 — following an open-records request of emails — of how  Pruitt  and other attorneys general had worked closely with the oil and gas industry to oppose Obama administration environmental safeguards.
Thousands more pages of emails from  his  time as Oklahoma’s attorney general  released earlier this year after the Center for Media and Democracy sued for them to be made public  detailed an often-chummy relationship between  Pruitt ’s office and Devon Energy  a major oil and gas exploration and production company based in Oklahoma City.
In addition   Pruitt  has largely avoided the agency’s decades-long practice of publicly posting the administrator’s appointment calendars. Only last week were details on months worth of meetings released after media outlets filed repeated Freedom of Information Act requests for that information; they showed  he  has met regularly with corporate executives from the automobile  mining and fossil fuel industries — in several instances shortly before making decisions favorable to those interest groups.
Pruitt  who has become a polarizing and high-profile figure as  he  seeks to roll back Obama-era policies and shrink the EPA’s footprint  has essentially tripled the personal security detail that served past administrators. The detail now includes about 18 people to cover round-the-clock needs and  his  frequent travel schedule. Such 24/7 coverage has prompted officials to rotate in special agents from around the country who otherwise would be investigating environmental crimes.

SOLUTION: EPA spending almost $25 000 to install a secure phone booth for Scott Pruitt

PROBLEM: LONDON (Reuters) - The head of a hardline group of pro-Brexit lawmakers on Saturday gave a cautious welcome to Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans for Britain’s future ties with Europe  saying now was not the time to nitpick.
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves after delivering a speech about her vision for Brexit  at Mansion House in London  Britain  March 2  2018. REUTERS/Leon Neal/Pool
With just over a year to go before Britain leaves the EU on March 29  2019  May softened  her  tone and called on Europe to show flexibility to help solve some of the more difficult problems.
 She  said  she  hoped to secure a tailor-made free trade deal that would include financial services and said Britain would aim for associate membership of EU agencies covering chemicals  medicines and aerospace.
Britain’s newspapers  as divided over Brexit as May’s party  welcomed  May ’s proposals as a way to return power to London without damaging trade from the world’s sixth biggest economy.
“For months  the Brexit hardliners have called the tune ”  the Financial Times said.“Mrs May  has stopped dancing.”

SOLUTION: Hardliners give cautious welcome to May's Brexit vision

PROBLEM: On Tuesday in New York   Sayfullo Saipov  29  a green-card holder from Uzbekistan in Central Asia and resident of Florida   responded to the call.
 He  drove  his  rented Home Depot truck from West Houston Street onto a Hudson River Park bike path  one of New Yorkâs most beloved amenities. Within ten minutes  eight people were killed and 15 were injured. A note found in the truck  law enforcement officials said  indicated that  Saipov  committed the attack out of devotion to ISIS.
 Saipov  might have killed even more people had the NYPD not been the nationâs premier counterterrorism force. NYPD officers showed up in force minutes after the attack began  shooting  Saipov  before he could kill even more New Yorkers.
But it takes a pack to raise a lone wolf. Even if  Saipov  acted alone   he  was part of a growing ideological fraternity numbering in the tens of thousands who now inhabit every region of the globe.
Like the attacks in these cities  the Halloween attack in Lower Manhattan was aimed at inflicting maximum carnage. Schools in the area were letting out students shortly after three oâclock when  Saipov  drove  his  rented truck off West Houston Street onto the bike path.
There was no shortage of targets. The streets between West Houston and Chambers were crowded with parents picking up their costumed children prepared for an evening of trick-or-treating. Pedestrians and bikers on the Hudson River bike path were stunned and helpless as  Saipov  careened  his  weapon through the crowd.
 Saipov  might have killed even more people had the NYPD not been the nationâs premier counterterrorism force. NYPD officers showed up in force minutes after the attack began  shooting  Saipov  before he could kill even more New Yorkers.

SOLUTION:
NYC terror attack: Halloween horror would have been much worse without top notch NYPD