{"id":18327,"date":"2017-12-20T16:09:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T21:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=18327"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:53:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:53:21","slug":"presenting-the-pruitt-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2017\/12\/20\/presenting-the-pruitt-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Presenting the Pruitt list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special people, places, polluters, cronies, calendars, chemicals, quotes, numbers, and other mischief that was\u00a0part of 2017\u2019s assault on environmental safeguards.\u00a0<em>Or, Who is Arthur A. Elkins, Jr.?<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Six: <\/strong>Number of former EPA Administrators (Republicans and Democrats) who have publicly condemned Administrator Scott Pruitt\u2019s efforts to hollow out the EPA.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Little Tidbits&#8221;: <\/strong>What <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/video\/2016\/03\/03\/trump-ill-balance-budget-with-better-negotiation-cutting-doe-epa-and-waste-fraud-and-abuse\/\">Donald Trump promised would be left of the EPA<\/a> when he\u2019s done with it.\u00a0 (He actually made this promise in 2016.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Arthur A. Elkins, Jr.: <\/strong>EPA\u2019s Inspector General.\u00a0 He\u2019s reviewing Pruitt\u2019s spending on <a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/28082017\/epa-inspector-general-will-investigate-pruitts-travel-expenses\">charter planes and travel to Oklahoma<\/a>, where Pruitt spent 43 of 92 days this spring.<\/li>\n<li><strong>$40,000:<\/strong> Amount spent for Pruitt to <a href=\"http:\/\/go.politicoemail.com\/?qs=ae79674cee030e92639b40ed9d781ea5c15ec5c70863a626e8406a4f644e55235b18ffcd9a28ad4f6dbb87c85937a0d4\">travel to Morocco <\/a>to promote natural gas exports.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Calendar:<\/strong> What Scott Pruitt has filled up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/03\/us\/politics\/epa-scott-pruitt-calendar-industries-coal-oil-environmentalists.html?_r=0\">meetings with polluter executives and lobbyists<\/a>, who often get favorable decisions after seeing him.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s just a mystery as to how you can persuade him to not follow exactly what industry asks him to do.\u201d<\/strong> An EPA employee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/03\/us\/politics\/epa-scott-pruitt-calendar-industries-coal-oil-environmentalists.html?_r=0\">describing Pruitt<\/a> at meetings with industry.<\/li>\n<li><strong>31%:<\/strong> The amount that Scott Pruitt and Donald Trump are trying to cut from the EPA budget\u2014the most of any agency in government.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cMeat Ax\u201d:<\/strong> What former EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus said that Scott Pruitt is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/11\/us\/politics\/scott-pruitt-epa.html\">swinging<\/a> at public health and environmental protections.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Superfund Cleanups:<\/strong> Pruitt seeks 30% cuts in EPA Superfund efforts while simultaneously promising to prioritize them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Indoor Radon Grant Program: <\/strong>Reduces radon in homes, schools and buildings.\u00a0 Pruitt and Trump are seeking to eliminate it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>EPA\u2019s Office of Environmental Justice<\/strong>: Created to give everyone protections from environmental and health hazards.\u00a0 Pruitt is seeking to eliminate it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>More than 60:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-environment\/unlike-trump-americans-want-strong-environmental-regulator-reuters-ipsos-idUSKBN1511DU\">Percent of Americans<\/a> who would like to see the EPA\u2019s powers preserved or strengthened.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paranoia:<\/strong> What might cause an EPA Administrator to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/03\/us\/politics\/epa-scott-pruitt-calendar-industries-coal-oil-environmentalists.html?_r=0\">keep a secret calendar<\/a>, spend taxpayer money to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/365495-epa-chief-pruitt-had-office-swept-for-surveillance-bugs\">sweep his offices for surveillance bugs<\/a>, require employees to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/11\/us\/politics\/scott-pruitt-epa.html\">have an escort<\/a> on his floor and not bring cell phones or take notes in his office, and install a $25,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/energy-environment\/wp\/2017\/12\/12\/epa-watchdog-plans-to-investigate-scott-pruitts-25000-secure-phone-booth\/?utm_term=.8cfa7951f0c0\">soundproof communications booth<\/a> <strong>when EPA has one already.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Arthur A. Elkins, Jr.: <\/strong>EPA\u2019s Inspector General.\u00a0 He\u2019s reviewing Pruitt\u2019s decision to spend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/energy-environment\/wp\/2017\/12\/12\/epa-watchdog-plans-to-investigate-scott-pruitts-25000-secure-phone-booth\/?utm_term=.8cfa7951f0c0\"><strong>more than $25,000 on a soundproof communications booth<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>About one-third: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/10\/us\/politics\/pollution-epa-regulations.html?_r=0\">Drop in number of EPA enforcement cases<\/a> against suspected polluters under Pruitt.<\/li>\n<li><strong>39%:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/10\/us\/politics\/pollution-epa-regulations.html?_r=0\">Reduction in civil penalties<\/a> sought from polluters under Pruitt.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Dourson: <\/strong>Industry \u201ctoxicologist-for-hire\u201d forced to withdraw his nomination to run EPA\u2019s Chemical Safety office amid public pressure and bipartisan Congressional opposition.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Albert \u201cKell\u201d Kelly: <\/strong>Senior Advisor to Pruitt.\u00a0 Banker and baseball pal of Pruitt with no environmental experience\u2014but barred from the financial industry by the FDIC.<\/li>\n<li><strong>William Wehrum: <\/strong>Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation.\u00a0 Sued EPA to tear down clear air and climate protections at least 31 times in the last decade.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Industry insiders who have spent decades fighting to block environmental safeguards and undermine scientific findings: <\/strong>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edf.org\/card\/polluters-running-epa\">Leadership, EPA<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>EPA\u2019s Board of Scientific Counselors<\/strong>: Created to provide independent advice, it\u2019s now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/energy-environment\/wp\/2017\/09\/18\/next-epa-science-advisers-could-include-those-who-question-climate-change\/?utm_term=.8ad4205bd8d6\">being purged<\/a> to make room for climate deniers and industry-backed figures.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cThe evidence is abundant of the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/08\/opinion\/how-not-to-run-the-epa.html?_r=0\"><strong>dangerous political turn<\/strong><\/a><strong> of an agency that is supposed to be guided by science.\u201d <\/strong>Former EPA chief Christie Todd Whitman<strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Opposition Research:<\/strong> What Definers Public Affairs, a partisan firm hired by EPA to monitor media, conducted on EPA employees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/15\/us\/politics\/epa-scott-pruitt-foia.html?_r=0\">who might be \u201cresistance\u201d figures.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Arthur A. Elkins, Jr.: <\/strong>EPA\u2019s Inspector General.\u00a0 He\u2019s been asked to investigate the EPA\u2019s no-bid hiring of Definers Public Affairs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Five:<\/strong> Number of major air safeguards being weakened or eliminated by the EPA: Clean Cars, Oil and gas methane pollution, Mercury and Air Toxics, Smog and Clean Power Plan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate Change: <\/strong>Global rise in temperatures, fueled by uptick in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, that is triggering more extreme climate events.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cClimate Change\u201d: <\/strong>Phrase <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/04\/29\/politics\/epa-climate-change-website\/index.html\">being purged<\/a> from EPA\u2019s website.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cRed-Blue Exercise\u201d: <\/strong>Method Pruitt wants to use to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/paloma\/daily-202\/2017\/11\/17\/daily-202-how-epa-chief-scott-pruitt-wants-to-redefine-environmentalism\/5a0e124230fb045a2e0030be\/?utm_term=.2bc16153395f\">attack well-established scientific consensus<\/a> on climate change.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Benzene:<\/strong> Dangerous carcinogen that leaked through Houston neighborhoods during Hurricane Harvey without EPA acknowledgement at the time or afterwards.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Arthur A. Elkins, Jr.:<\/strong> EPA\u2019s Inspector General.\u00a0 He\u2019s reviewing EPA\u2019s performance during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/sites\/production\/files\/2017-12\/documents\/_epaoig_notificationmemo_12-14-17_hurricanes.pdf\">Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>EPA Office of Public Affairs:<\/strong> Taxpayer-funded unit responsible for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitch.com\/news\/article\/20979823\/cathy-stepp-this-regions-unlikely-no-2-administrator-at-the-epa-dislikes-regulations-and-transparency\">forcing reporters to file Freedom of Information Act<\/a> requests for routine information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/erik-wemple\/wp\/2017\/10\/27\/you-avoid-fake-news-that-way-new-york-times-reporter-socks-it-to-epa-press-office\/?utm_term=.e6065fc5ef90\">accusing them of stealing work<\/a> from other outlets, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/09\/03\/trump-epa-reporter-attacked-hurricane-242300\">attacking them personally<\/a> after they reported on Hurricane Harvey environmental threats that the EPA hadn\u2019t yet found.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tar Creek, Oklahoma:<\/strong> Site of a health disaster where Scott Pruitt, as state attorney general, refused to prosecute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2017\/12\/06\/scott-pruitt-tar-creek-oklahoma-investigation-215854\">or even release the state auditor\u2019s report<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Arthur A. Elkins, Jr.:<\/strong> EPA\u2019s Inspector General.\u00a0 He\u2019s reviewing Pruitt\u2019s call for a mining group to lobby Trump on the Paris climate treaty, which <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/363586-epa-watchdog-to-investigate-pruitt-meeting-with-industry-group\">could violate ethics rules<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cEPA has all the signs of an agency captured by industry.\u201d<\/strong> \u00a0Congressman Paul Tonko at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/epa-chief-denies-sidelining-science-pros-to-appease-industry\/2017\/12\/07\/64e9d9ea-db7d-11e7-a241-0848315642d0_story.html?utm_term=.22d879b54136\">Pruitt\u2019s first oversight hearing <\/a>(a full 293 days after Pruitt took office).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exodus: <\/strong>(1) Second Book of the Torah and the Bible. (2) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/16\/us\/politics\/scott-pruitt-environmental-protection-agency.html\">Departure of more than 700 EPA employees<\/a> since the 2016 election and the Pruitt assault on the EPA.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Smog, coal ash, lead, mercury, benzene, and carbon:<\/strong> Dangerous pollutants coming your way as Pruitt rolls back key environmental safeguards.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What we\u2019ll all be at more risk for:<\/strong> Brain damage, leukemia, asthma, lung cancer, heart disease, heart attacks, diabetes, bladder cancer and birth defects.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Washington\u2019s busiest person in 2018:<\/strong> <strong>Arthur A. Elkins, Jr<\/strong>., EPA\u2019s Inspector General.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You can find even more in our \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edf.org\/sites\/default\/files\/years_of_fear_0.pdf\">EPA\u2019s Terrible 2017<\/a>\u201d wrap-up report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Happy Holidays and a Safe and Healthy New Year from Your Friends at EDF!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special people, places, polluters, cronies, calendars, chemicals, quotes, numbers, and other mischief that was\u00a0part of 2017\u2019s assault on environmental safeguards.\u00a0Or, Who is Arthur A. Elkins, Jr.? Six: Number of former EPA Administrators (Republicans and Democrats) who have publicly condemned Administrator Scott Pruitt\u2019s efforts to hollow out the EPA. &#8220;Little Tidbits&#8221;: What Donald Trump promised would &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":18333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"coauthors":[108102],"class_list":["post-18327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Presenting the Pruitt list - Climate 411<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2017\/12\/20\/presenting-the-pruitt-list\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Presenting the Pruitt list - Climate 411\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Special people, places, polluters, cronies, calendars, chemicals, quotes, numbers, and other mischief that was\u00a0part of 2017\u2019s assault on environmental safeguards.\u00a0Or, Who is Arthur A. 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