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...The initial rise in exemptions came under EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, an oil-friendly Oklahoman. But they have continued under his successor Mr Wheeler, with 31 more granted in August....
...Mr Wheeler has been acting head of the Environmental Protection Agency since Scott Pruitt resigned from the post over summer....
...So if confirmed, I would lead the EPA. Senator, I've acknowledged to you that human activity impacts - Impacts. If that's the kind of EPA administrator you will be, you're not going to get my vote....
...Bernie Sanders, the leftwing senator, said: “I will do everything possible to see that the next EPA administrator actually believes in environmental protection.”...
...The EPA’s treatment of smaller refiners intensified pressure on Scott Pruitt, Mr Trump’s first EPA administrator, who quit last month under a cloud of ethics scandals....
...The official biography of Scott Pruitt, administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency, stresses his commitment to curbing abuses of power by the federal government....
...Scott Pruitt, the EPA administrator, said that the Obama administration had “made assumptions about the standards that didn’t comport with reality, and set the standards too high”....
...But the EPA and Administrator Scott Pruitt refuse to do their job and enforce these standards. Enough is enough....
....” — Scott Pruitt, head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, this week responded to the spate of criticism he has faced over his conduct in office....
...James Delingpole, opinionating for the rightwing Breitbart News, denounced Scott Pruitt, Mr Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency administrator, as being “more interested in building his political career...
....” - Scott Pruitt, administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency, announcing his intent to scrap the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan....
...A fight is imminent in the US Senate over the confirmation of president-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Scott Pruitt as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency....
...Last month the Auto Alliance, which represents large manufacturers, wrote to Scott Pruitt, the new head of the EPA, warning that 1.1m jobs could be lost if the rules for 2022-25 were left unchanged....
...Scott Pruitt, the attorney-general of Oklahoma, which has indicated it will not comply, told the Financial Times: “That to me is coercion . . ....
...However, Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma’s attorney-general, questioned the EPA’s legal authority to regulate power plant emissions, and said its proposals were certain to be challenged in the courts....
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