Posted on 07/05/2018 1:05:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Scott Pruitt has resigned as head of the Environmental Protection Agency after a string of controversies involving his leadership, President Trump announced Thursday on Twitter.
"Within the Agency Scott has done an outstanding job, and I will always be thankful to him for this," tweeted Trump, who added that EPA Deputy Administrator Andrew Wheeler would take over as acting administrator effective Monday.
...on Monday assume duties as the acting Administrator of the EPA. I have no doubt that Andy will continue on with our great and lasting EPA agenda. We have made tremendous progress and the future of the EPA is very bright!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 5, 2018 "I have no doubt that Andy will continue on with our great and lasting EPA agenda," Trump concluded. "We have made tremendous progress and the future of the EPA is very bright!"
In his resignation letter to Trump, Pruitt said: "It is extremely difficult for me to cease serving you in this role first because I count it a blessing to be serving you in any capacity, but also, because of the transformative work that is occurring.
"However, the unrelenting attacks on me personally [and] my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us," Pruitt added.
Pruitt resigned less than a week after The New York Times reported that the EPA's chief ethics official, Kevin Minoli, had been pushing for a series of independent investigation into several aspects of Pruitt's tenure. Those include Pruitt's rental of a Washington D.C. condominium from a lobbyist's spouse and his alleged use of staff to handle personal matters.
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I have been lurker since the Clintons had the presidency...and a member under this posting name since 2014. there is a older account under another name but I took sevral years off from posting and lost both e-mail it was under and password.
you are advocating bad stuff defend your self and your views
or shut the —— —
how long you are member of this forum has nothing to do with the validity of your views. all it does as far as I can see with you is give you a good amount of hubris.
This means the left will step up their harassment. This is chum in the waters
He made a difference in our neighborhood and will be sorely missed.
God Bless you Scott Pruitt!!
Buckeye (Cincinnati native who graduated from Case Western Reserve University - very good school - in Cleveland) former lobbyist for a coal company who helped oppose Obama policies. In other words, the EPA is probably just as if not more OK in his hands.
Pruitt was worth every single penny.
They’re picking them off one at a time.
Some conservatives like shooting their own
Wheeler seems completely fine.
I'm not interested in the maunderings of mouthy newbie surrender monkeys.
unforced error...
Be careful what you wish for
Our strike force strikes on Election Day
IIRC, John Beale, the EPA employee who falsified timesheets and claimed to be working on a "CIA detail", was in former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy's direct supervisory chain at the time. Funny how no comments were then heard from the agency's chief ethics official, huh?
Dittoes!
New York Times: Showing 587 results for Scott Pruitt between 11/10/2016 to 07/05/2018
https://www.nytimes.com/search?endDate=20180705&query=Scott%20Pruitt&sort=newest&startDate=20161110
20 Jun: Washington Examiner: Jim Inhofe ‘embarrassed’ he doubted Scott Pruitt on ethics scandals
by John Siciliano
Sen. Jim Inhofe, a big supporter of Scott Pruitt, defended the Environmental Protection Agency administrator Wednesday, blaming everyone from the media to billionaire Trump opponent Tom Steyer for ginning up a fervor over the EPA chief’s ethical missteps that are under multiple investigations...
Inhofe was “getting concerned” about the media reports, but after the “face-to-face” meeting, “I’m a little embarrassed that I was starting to doubt him in some areas where he shouldn’t have been doubted,” he told reporters Wednesday morning in his office...
First, he blamed billionaire environmentalist Steyer for instigating the attack through a virtually never-ending supply of money to run attack campaigns.
“Here’s a man with unlimited funds to spread an extreme liberal agenda,” Inhofe said. He said the anti-Pruitt campaign wasn’t being run directly by Steyer, but through his funding of the American Bridge PAC...
The group Occupy Wall Street this week published Pruitt’s home address in Tulsa, which Inhofe said constituted taking “a pitchfork to it” and invading his private space...
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/jim-inhofe-embarrassed-he-doubted-scott-pruitt-on-ethics-scandals
the attacks will continue, because there are trillions of dollars at stake in the globull warming scam:
5 Jul: Quartz: Scandal-plagued EPA head Scott Pruitt has been replaced by a coal lobbyist
By Heather Timmons
Pruitt’s replacement, Andrew Wheeler, is a former coal industry lobbyist with Faegre Baker Daniels who spent nearly a decade trying to get Congress to pass industry friendly laws. He also served as the vice president of the Washington Coal Club, a group of businessmen who meets monthly on Capitol Hill. Previously, Wheeler served as an aide to Republican senator James Inhofe from Oklahoma, who once presented a snowball on the Senate floor in an attempt to prove that climate change was a hoax...
https://qz.com/1322131/andrew-wheeler-coal-lobbyist-replaces-scott-pruitt-as-head-of-epa/
Having leftards learn they can force out cabinet members of their choice by harassment is a VERY bad precedent.
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