Law Scott Pruitt resigns as Administrator of the EPA

The New York Times: Scott Pruitt, Trump's E.P.A. Chief, Resigns Under Cloud of Ethics Scandals

WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, President Trump’s embattled administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has resigned after facing months of allegations over legal and ethical violations.

Mr. Trump announced the resignation on Thursday in a tweet, saying

Mr. Pruitt had been hailed as a hero among conservatives for his zealous deregulation, but he could not overcome the stain of numerous ethics questions about his alleged spending abuses, first-class travel and cozy relationships with lobbyists.

Mr. Pruitt also came under fire for enlisting aides to obtain special favors for him and his family, such as reaching out to the chief executive of Chick-fil-A, Dan T. Cathy, with the intent of helping Mr. Pruitt’s wife, Marlyn, open franchise of the restaurant.

Mr. Pruitt, a former Oklahoma attorney general who built his career on lawsuits against the agency he would eventually lead, remained a favorite of Mr. Trump’s for the majority of his tenure at the E.P.A. He began the largest regulatory rollback in the agency’s history, undoing, delaying or blocking several Obama-era environmental rules. Among them was a suite of historic regulations aimed at mitigating global warming pollution from the United States’ vehicles and power plants.

 

[CWCchange]

Fuck the EPA. Abolish it, and have the respective federal executive departments absorb its functions.

 

[nosemouth]

It was funny having someone who so despised the EPA being put in charge of it, but this guy was corruption personified so he had to go.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

This past week, in which it was very noticeably hotter than ever before, people like Donald "I Dunno Maybe" Trump and Scott "Ah Gee I Need More Evidence" Pruitt, sicken me. I live in one of the most humid parts of the country- an area known for its lush vegetation- and my rhubarb is barely making it. That's right; one of the most versatile and robust perennials can barely make it, even with getting a gallon of water daily.

Lawns that have always been green are yellow and drying up. But, jeez, it's either not real or it was going to happen anyways, so let's not worry about it. Goodbye and good luck not getting shanked without your pope-esque security detail, Pruitt. Go return to Oklahoma, where your fracking-induced quakes will keep you on edge.

You do realize, according to actual temperature measurements, that the amount of warming over the last 50 years is less than 1 degree celcius, so your perception that it's very noticeably hotter than ever before is not backed up by data.

If you're going to talk about how AGW is totally real and deniers are morons, at least try to understand the actual facts. Your stuff is not dying because it's 0.8 degrees hotter than it was 50 years ago. Droughts have been happening throughout recorded history.