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Scott Pruitt on Environment
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Reversed Obama's ban on pesticide chlorpyrifos
Gutting the Clean Air Act--as has recently been done--does not just affect the air; it affects our breathing. Gutting the Clean Water Act--as has recently been done--does not just affect the water; it affects our bodies when we drink it. We should
vigorously and passionately defend the health of our environment against the ill-advised, dangerously recalcitrant policies of the current leadership at the Environmental Protection Agency.Genetically modified food and dangerous pesticides pose
additional dangers as well. A well-known case in point is that after meeting with Dow Chemical lobbyists, Mr. Pruitt reversed President Obama's previous ban on the pesticide chlorpyrifos, which EPA scientists had declared unsafe under any circumstances
due to known harm to children's brains. Under Pruitt's direction, advocating for your health and mine, as well as the health of our children and our planet, has become secondary to advocating for the financial interests of American business.
Source: Healing the Soul of America, by Marianne Williamson, p.179
, Jul 24, 2018
OpEd: at EPA, rolling back environmental protections
Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., once stated, "The American people deserve long-term, forward-thinking policies." Unfortunately, Heller's voting record contradicts this statement. Heller voted for EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Department of the Interior
Secretary Ryan Zinke. Pruitt is rolling back environmental protections while Zinke is shrinking national monuments and expanding offshore drilling.
Source: Las Vegas Sun, "Broken promise," 2018 Trump Administration
, Feb 12, 2018
As OK attorney general, shut environmental enforcement unit
As for the EPA itself, Trump's pick for the head of that agency was truly breathtaking: he chose a climate denier, Scott Pruitt. When he was the Oklahoma attorney general, Pruitt literally shut down his environmental enforcement unit.
He seemed to believe that no one in Oklahoma would violate any environmental regulations, so why not just take the cops off the beat?
When he got involved in environmental lawsuits as state attorney general, he almost always picked the side of the polluters rather than the people. Just one example: when brooks and streams in northeastern Oklahoma were overrun with
chicken manure from big commercial poultry operations and the EPA was moving in to force the companies to clean up the mess, Pruitt jumped into the lawsuit on the side of the poultry industry. Yay--more chicken poop in the water!
Source: This Fight is Our Fight, by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, p. 245
, Apr 18, 2017
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