Given the relentless march of Pruitt controversies, it can be hard to keep up. “Somebody has to say that about you a little bit.” Upon accepting Pruitt’s resignation, Trump tweeted he had done an “outstanding job”.
“EPA is doing really, really well,” the president said in June.
“I’m astounded at some of the stuff I read.” Joni Ernst, a senator from Iowa, said Pruitt was “as swampy as you get”.įortunately for Pruitt, his boss, Donald Trump, supported him. “I think he’s acting like a moron,” said Senator John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican. Many Republicans, too, are also heartily sick of him. It’s new and unwelcome territory.”ĭemocrats, environmental groups and Cher have repeatedly called for Pruitt’s removal. It would’ve got him fired in any administration but this one. “There is no precedent for this sort of behaviour and I don’t think the ship can be righted with this administrator. “It’s a toxic brew and the EPA is an unhappy place right now,” William Reilly, who was EPA administrator under George HW Bush, told the Guardian. It would’ve got him fired in any administration but this one William Reilly I don’t think the ship can be righted with him. It’s been a dizzying, harrowing year for beleaguered agency staff, who have been tasked with unwinding their painstaking rule-making work while being led by an administrator who is the subject of a dozen different ethics investigations. Not to mention that he has allegedly wreaked revenge upon colleagues who questioned his spending habits.Įven as Pruitt strives to tick off every conceivable ethical violation, the EPA administrator has still found time to peel back dozens of Obama-era rules aimed at reducing air and water pollution, as well as dismantle any vestige of action on climate change to the point where the very words have been scrubbed from the EPA website. Pruitt’s tastes have a darker side, however, such as the revelations that he signed off on improper pay raises for favoured staff and has overseen an operation that physically bars journalists from covering his public genuflection for businesses. But the former Oklahoma attorney general’s appetite for controversy has also taken him in some daring and innovative new directions, offering up a smorgasbord that includes demanding his bodyguards drive him in search of his favourite moisturizing lotion, spending $1,500 on 12 pens, and bulldozing mere perceptions by literally living at an energy lobbyist’s apartment.
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