Posted on 02/16/2017 4:15:21 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Hundreds of former Environmental Protection Agency officials have signed a letter in protest of Scott Pruitt’s nearing confirmation as EPA Administrator.
The letter, put together by the nonprofit group Environmental Integrity Project, was signed by 773 former EPA staffers, including scientists, engineers and attorneys. The EIP sent the letter to the Senate, where members could confirm Pruitt as early as Friday, the organization said in a statement.
“Pruitt, a close ally of the oil and gas industry, has made a career of suing EPA and attacking the idea of federal action to reduce pollution – while simultaneously failing to enforce environmental laws in his own state and shutting down the Environmental Protection Unit in the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office,” the EIP said in the statement.
As Oklahoma’s attorney general, Pruitt sued the EPA more than a dozen times. He is a climate change denier whose own LinkedIn page refers to himself as “a leading advocate against EPA’s activist agenda.”
In a January confirmation hearing, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) asked Pruitt if “there is any safe level of lead that can be taken into the human body.”
“Senator, that is something I have not reviewed nor know about,” Pruitt replied. (The answer is no).
Ellen Spitalnik was a former EPA attorney who served both Republican and Democratic administrations from 1980 to 2002. She signed the letter in opposition to President Donald Trump’s pick.
“My life’s work is protecting public health and the environment, so I must speak out against this unqualified extremist,” Spitalnik said in a statement. “Pruitt represents what we environmental lawyers call an ‘imminent and substantial endangerment’ to our health and environment. He threatens the very integrity of EPA and must not be allowed to continue shutting down environmental enforcement, disregarding science and putting private interests above public good.”
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Looks like Pruitt just got 773 endorsements.
Former? Who cares what they think?
Cool, this guy must be good.
LOL! “Former” EPA staffers.
Yup. That carries a lot of weight.
Gotta say thats 800 votes affirming trump’s pick as a good one.
We’re giving up our oklahoma attorney general for the good of America. You’re welcome America
“Hundreds of former Environmental Protection Agency officials have signed a letter in protest of Scott Pruitt’s nearing confirmation as EPA Administrator.”
Proof positive that Pruitt has to be good.
That makes Pruitt one fine fellow!
Then he’s definitely the right guy.
800 EPA losers ruined the trucking industry. F em.
This guy must be great!
Well now we know the first 773 sh!tstains that need to be FIRED.
We can work on the rest as they become known.
Yeah, I know, I didn’t catch the FORMER when I started typing.
Old cockroaches never die, they just get underfoot.....
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