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A minor victory, but the EPA was ordered to produce the studies Pruitt relied on to refute climate change. Hint: they either don't exist or aren't credible.
Two more of his top aides resigned over the last 24 hours.
Pruitt is now facing his 12th ethics investigation. His scandals include
More than 700 employees have resigned from the EPA since he took over, many with scathing resignation letters.
Two more of his top aides resigned over the last 24 hours.
Pruitt is now facing his 12th ethics investigation. His scandals include
- Improper use of first class travel (he claimed it was for his safety);
- Installation of a $43,000 soundproof phone booth in his office;
- Spending $9,000 to sweep his office for listening devices;
- Rental of a lobbyist's condominium for $50/night;
- Improperly giving raises to aides without approval;
- Email abuses including using four separate email accounts;
- Using aides to seek a Chick-fil-a franchise for his wife;
- Using aides to find a used Trump Hotel mattress;
- Asking aides to find some reason for him to visit vacation destinations, including Fiji.
More than 700 employees have resigned from the EPA since he took over, many with scathing resignation letters.
When is enough enough with this guy?But some of the biggest, and most overlooked, changes Pruitt has made at the EPA have come by not doing anything at all. He’s steering the EPA’s work at an agonizingly slow pace,delaying and slowing the implementation of laws and running interference for many of the sectors EPA is supposed to regulate. His EPA has also collected far fewer fines from polluters than any of the last three administrations during the same time.
With more staff and funding cuts looming, even fewer toxic chemicals and other environmental hazards will be measured, and the statutes that protect against them won’t be enforced.
“People will get sick and die,” Christine Todd Whitman, who served as EPA administrator under President George W. Bush, told Vox. “It’s that simple.” Some 230,000 Americans already die each year due to hazardous chemical exposures. “You stop enforcing those regulations and that number will go way up,” she said.
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