Pruitt, 48, is a hero to conservative activists, one of a group of Republican attorneys general who formed an alliance with some of the nation’s top energy producers to push back against the Obama regulatory agenda. administrator toward clean air and safe drinking water in history,” he added. “It’s a safe assumption that Pruitt could be the most hostile E.P.A. and roll back many of the gains made to reduce Americans’ exposures to industrial pollution, and with Pruitt, the president-elect would make good on those threats,” said Ken Cook, head of the Environmental Working Group, a Washington research and advocacy organization. Trump regularly threatened to dismantle the E.P.A. Trump told New York Times editors and reporters that he does “ think there is some connectivity” between human activity and a warming planet. Trump was moderating his campaign stance. Dissent is not a crime.”Ī meeting on Monday between the president-elect and former Vice President Al Gore may have given environmental activists a glimmer of hope that Mr. It should not be silenced with threats of prosecution. “That debate should be encouraged - in classrooms, public forums, and the halls of Congress. “Scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of global warming and its connection to the actions of mankind,” he wrote in National Review earlier this year. Pruitt has been in lock step with those views. Obama’s signature global warming policy, the Clean Power Plan, as a “ war on coal.” Trump has criticized the established science of human-caused global warming as a hoax, vowed to “cancel” the Paris accord committing nearly every nation to taking action to fight climate change, and attacked Mr. Obama’s climate change policies, actions that fit with the president-elect’s comments during the campaign.
Pruitt, a Republican, has been a key architect of the legal battle against Mr. Trump’s determination to dismantle President Obama’s efforts to counter climate change - and much of the E.P.A.
Trump has selected Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general and a close ally of the fossil fuel industry, to run the Environmental Protection Agency, signaling Mr.
Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general, at Trump Tower in Manhattan on Wednesday. Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
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