EPA’s Mission Subverted By Trump Choice Scott Pruitt

The US Environmental Protection Agency has almost immediately been castrated and had any legitimacy it once had undermined after Scott Pruitt, US President Donald Trump’s controversial nomination to head the agency, was confirmed by the Senate last week. Last week I reported on the upcoming confirmation hearing in the Senate to approve Scott Pruitt — “puppet of the fossil fuel industry” — as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), an agency he sued 14 times as Attorney General of Oklahoma. Not only does Pruitt believe that the EPA has overstepped its bounds in regulating water and air pollution — including opposing… Read more…

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