{"id":17757,"date":"2017-08-30T09:39:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T14:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=17757"},"modified":"2018-04-09T16:03:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T21:03:17","slug":"pruitt-six-months-in-taking-a-meat-ax-to-the-protections-of-public-health-and-environment-and-then-hiding-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2017\/08\/30\/pruitt-six-months-in-taking-a-meat-ax-to-the-protections-of-public-health-and-environment-and-then-hiding-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Pruitt six months in: \u201ctaking a meat ax to the protections of public health and environment and then hiding it\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In Scott Pruitt\u2019s six-month tenure as President Trump\u2019s EPA Administrator, his administration\u00a0has firmly established a reputation for secrecy and for glossing over conflicts of interest.<\/p>\n

This pattern of making decisions behind closed doors and stocking EPA with industry representatives is problematic for many reasons, but most importantly because so many of those decisions are putting our health at risk.<\/p>\n

Former EPA Administrator Bill Ruckelshaus \u2014 appointed by Presidents Nixon and Reagan \u2014described Pruitt\u2019s tenure<\/a> thus far:<\/p>\n

[I]t appears that what is happening now is taking a meat ax to the protections of public health and environment and then hiding it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pruitt\u2019s troubling pattern of behavior has even caught the interest of the EPA\u2019s Inspector General, who recently opened an investigation<\/a> into Pruitt\u2019s repeated travel to Oklahoma at taxpayers\u2019 expense. And one of Pruitt\u2019s handpicked appointees, Albert Kelly, was just penalized by a federal banking agency<\/a> for \u201cunsound practices\u201d in his previous position as a bank CEO.<\/p>\n

Weakening safeguards across the board<\/b><\/p>\n

As we\u2019ve documented<\/a>, Pruitt has a troubling record of attacking public safeguards without providing any opportunity for public input \u2013 including protections against toxic wastewater, oil and gas pollution, climate pollution, and safety risks at major chemical facilities.<\/p>\n

Pruitt took aim at limits on smog that would prevent 230,000 childhood asthma attacks<\/a> every year. He tried to unilaterally delay these standards without any public input on his decision, until eventually he backed down in the face of legal and public backlash.<\/p>\n

Pruitt also suspended enforcement of existing standards for pollution from oil and gas facilities without any public input. Pruitt\u2019s announcement<\/a> did not even mention the harmful health impacts from halting implementation of pollution controls for 18,000 wells across the country. Earlier this month a federal appeals court overwhelmingly rejected<\/a> Pruitt\u2019s move as illegal after a panel decision<\/a> that deemed Pruitt\u2019s actions \u201cunlawful,\u201d \u201carbitrary,\u201d and \u201ccapricious.\u201d<\/p>\n

Undermining enforcement that holds polluters accountable<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

A recent analysis<\/a> of EPA\u2019s enforcement program showed that penalties against polluters have dropped by a remarkable 60 percent since the Inauguration. Not holding companies responsible for their pollution has tangible impacts in the form of more pollution, more illness, and more avoidable, early deaths.<\/p>\n

The Trump Administration\u2019s proposed budget calls for a 40 percent cut to EPA\u2019s enforcement office, which would further hamper EPA\u2019s ability to hold polluters accountable. Meanwhile, EPA overall would face a 30 percent cut, which also puts public health at risk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pruitt sometimes tries to mask his focus on rolling back important EPA initiatives. For example, he claims to be concentrating on cleaning up contaminated land through EPA\u2019s Superfund program, yet the Trump Administration\u2019s budget proposal would cut Superfund<\/a> by more than 30 percent.<\/p>\n

Pervasive conflicts of interest<\/b><\/p>\n

In Pruitt\u2019s former role as Oklahoma Attorney General, he was exposed<\/a> for cutting and pasting industry requests and sending them to EPA on his official stationary. He shamelessly responded<\/a> by calling his conduct \u201crepresentative government in my view.\u201d<\/p>\n

At EPA, Pruitt and his most senior advisors are now driving vital decisions about public health notwithstanding clear, severe conflicts of interest.<\/p>\n

As just one example, Dr. Nancy Beck, the senior political appointee in EPA\u2019s toxic chemicals office, recently left her prior position at the chemicals industry\u2019s main trade association. In her current role at EPA, she has a key role in implementing the new reforms to the Toxic Substances Control Act passed last year. In this capacity, Dr. Beck is making decisions that directly affect the financial interests of companies she represented in her previous position on issues on which she advocated for the chemical industry as recently as earlier this year. The unsurprising result<\/a>? Important protections are being weakened or reversed.<\/p>\n

Pruitt\u2019s lax approach to ethics may also extend to his travel schedule. Pruitt\u2019s travel records<\/a> show that he traveled repeatedly to Oklahoma at taxpayer expense, straining EPA\u2019s limited resources. (Some sources have speculated<\/a> that Pruitt\u2019s extensive travel may be a run up to a future Pruitt campaign for political office in Oklahoma.) As we mentioned at the beginning of this post, EPA\u2019s Inspector General has now opened an investigation<\/a> into the matter<\/p>\n

Pruitt\u2019s appointment of Albert Kelly is another example of how he seems to tolerate behavior that other administrations would find unacceptable. Pruitt appointed the former banking CEO to lead a task force on Superfund cleanup sites. As we mentioned earlier, just this week Kelly was sanctioned by the FDIC<\/a>, which issued a lifetime bar against his participation in any future banking-related activities and noted violations that involved Kelly’s “willful or continuing disregard for the safety or soundness of the bank” where he was CEO.\u00a0Nonetheless, Pruitt continues to entrust Kelly with the responsibility for leading efforts to reform management of the billion-dollar hazardous waste clean-up program.<\/p>\n

Pruitt\u2019s pattern of secrecy<\/b><\/p>\n

This summer Pruitt won the Golden Padlock Award<\/a>, given by investigative reporters and editors to recognize the most secretive U.S. agency or individual.<\/p>\n

Robert Cribb, chair of the Golden Padlock committee, noted:<\/p>\n

Judges were impressed with the breadth and scope of Pruitt\u2019s information suppression techniques around vital matters of public interest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pruitt has overseen the elimination of important climate science resources that EPA previously made publicly available on its website. EDF recently received more than 1,900 items<\/a> from EPA in response to a Freedom of Information Act request for climate-related information and data deleted from, or modified on, EPA websites.<\/p>\n

Even the basics of how Pruitt spends his business hours, and with whom he spends them, are hidden from the public. Contravening a bi-partisan EPA transparency practice<\/a>, Pruitt no longer makes senior management calendars \u2014 including his own \u2014 available to the public. The website comparison below highlights this sudden change:<\/p>\n

EPA\u2019s website on January 19, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n

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And the same page today<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The start of Scott Pruitt\u2019s term as EPA Administrator has been marked by continuous attacks on our public health safeguards and government transparency. Perhaps it\u2019s not a surprise that Pruitt is keeping Americans in the dark about his actions, because the more we learn, the more we see reasons to be outraged. The American public deserves better from the senior leader in charge of protecting our health and welfare from dangerous pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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