Scott Pruitt is a foe of regulations and will be in charge
of policing industries that helped his career.
USA Today - "Trump's EPA Pick Rejects Climate Science, Fights for Fossil Fuels":
Those lawsuits are the tip of the iceberg. Pruitt sued the EPA over its regional haze rule, which limits coal-plant pollution that muddies the air in national parks and wildlife refuges. He sued the agency over a regulation to cut down on smog that crosses state lines. He sued over the agency's "waters of the United States" rule, which expands the number of waterways covered by the Clean Water Act. (None of those lawsuits has been successful.) Pruitt also opposes an Interior Department rule that would regulate hydraulic fracturing, a controversial drilling technique, on public lands."
Here's a history of Pruitt's actions and positions regarding the EPA, the agency he's been nominated to lead, and environmental regulations in general.
Here's a story from The Hill about Pruitt's career.
A NYTimes editorial urges Congress to reject Pruitt.
Find members of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee holding Pruitt's hearing here.
USA Today - "Trump's EPA Pick Rejects Climate Science, Fights for Fossil Fuels":
"Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general, has spent
six years waging war against the EPA's climate and clean air initiatives. He's
often done so in close coordination with the fossil fuel industry, which has
given him nearly $300,000 in campaign contributions during his political
career. And like Trump, Pruitt has dismissed the world's most daunting
environmental challenge, rejecting the overwhelming scientific consensus that
human beings are heating the planet by burning coal, oil and natural gas.
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"Pruitt has fought President Obama's climate and clean air regulations,
usually decrying them as federal overreach and too costly to businesses and
energy consumers. He unsuccessfully sued the EPA over a 2011 rule to limit
emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants from power plants, which the
agency estimates will save up to 11,000 lives and prevent 4,700 heart attacks
and 130,000 asthma attacks per year. More recently, he sued the EPA over a
regulation designed to reduce the amount of smog-forming, lung-damaging ozone
in the air. That case is pending.Those lawsuits are the tip of the iceberg. Pruitt sued the EPA over its regional haze rule, which limits coal-plant pollution that muddies the air in national parks and wildlife refuges. He sued the agency over a regulation to cut down on smog that crosses state lines. He sued over the agency's "waters of the United States" rule, which expands the number of waterways covered by the Clean Water Act. (None of those lawsuits has been successful.) Pruitt also opposes an Interior Department rule that would regulate hydraulic fracturing, a controversial drilling technique, on public lands."
Here's a history of Pruitt's actions and positions regarding the EPA, the agency he's been nominated to lead, and environmental regulations in general.
Here's a story from The Hill about Pruitt's career.
A NYTimes editorial urges Congress to reject Pruitt.
Find members of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee holding Pruitt's hearing here.
