Where would Americans be without the brain trust at The View informing their opinions about government, national security, the economy, health care, taxes, the environment, and just about every other important issue we face as a nation?

Lucky for us then that Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg weighed in on President-elect Trump's choice of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency. 

According to those two Mensas, Pruitt will usher in an era of mass pollution, where Flint-quality water becomes the norm across the nation, and where Americans will need to wear SARS masks to filter out the contaminated air we breathe. Is there any basis to the cackling coffee clatch's hysteria? Why, yes. Yes there is. Apparently Pruitt is already responsible for 907 earthquakes hitting his home state. 

"Why don't they just call it the environmental pollution agency instead of the environmental protection agency because he is going to dismantle everything in place -- the air you breathe, the water you drink," lamented Behar.

"I mean, what he's done in Oklahoma is not that great either. I don't understand why he met with Al Gore, what was the purpose of that?"

Not that we agree that anyone in the Trump administration should give Al Gore the time of day, but how typical of the dour Left to not even entertain the idea of accepting that rather generous olive-branch. 

Behar continued, snarling, "Okay. There were 907 earthquakes in Oklahoma last year and they say they were caused by the oil and gas production. How is he helping Oklahoma?"

When asked by her co-host who said that oil and gas production causes earthquakes, Behar replied "the EPA, I guess."

(h/t: Newsbusters)