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Trump Chooses Pruitt to Lead EPA
USAgNet - 12/08/2016
President-elect Donald Trump nominated Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency. He is the attorney general of the oil and gas-intensive state of Oklahoma, who spent much of the past year fighting the very agency he is being nominated to
lead.
Trump's transition team announced the nomination in a news release Thursday, calling Pruitt 'an expert in Constitutional law' and saying he brings a deep understanding of the impact of regulations on both the environment and the economy.
"For too long, the Environmental Protection Agency has spent taxpayer dollars on an out-of-control anti-energy agenda that has destroyed millions of jobs, while also undermining our incredible farmers and many other businesses and industries at every turn,"
Trump said. "Pruitt will reverse this trend and restore the EPA's essential mission of keeping our air and our water clean and safe."
Pruitt says American people are 'tired of seeing billions of dollars drained from our economy due to unnecessary EPA regulations' and says he intends to run the EPA in a way that fosters both responsible protection of the environment and freedom for American
businesses.
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