Pruitt won my heart when he chased over 700 government deadbeats out of their EPA jobs as soon as he took office.
26 Apr: Daily Caller: Tim Pearce: Pruitt Points Out ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ About Obama’s Attempts To Regulate Carbon Emissions
“What’s lost in this discussion is what authority does the EPA have to regulate,” Pruitt said.
“There were two efforts made by the previous administration to regulate CO2, and both of them were struck down by the courts,” Pruitt continued. “The tailoring rule that the previous administration adopted with respect to CO2 and the Clean Power Plan was stayed by the U.S. Supreme Court, and it was unprecedented. That had never happened for the U.S. Supreme Court to issue a stay while a case was pending at a lower court level.”
“That does not allow us to say we are not going to deal with this issue,” Pinegree responded.
“I can only take the steps that Congress authorizes me to take,” Pruitt said, faulting the Obama administration for trying to “pinch-hit” for Congress...
http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/26/scott-pruitt-inconvenient-truth-obama-carbon-emissions/
A man after my own heart and “this one can fight, we need him”, to paraphrase Gen Mattis.