The truth about EPA chief Scott Pruitt’s ‘scandals’

Published February 27, 2017 6:29pm ET



Scott Pruitt, President Trump’s newly appointed administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, told CPAC on Saturday that he wants to roll back suffocating Obama-era environmental regulations and return the agency to environmental sanity.

“What has happened over the past several years, is the previous administration was so focused on climate change and so focused on CO2 that some of those other priorities were left behind,” Pruitt said, according to a report in The Hill.

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