Scott Pruitt Can Go to Congress Whenever He Wants
If he’s hemmed in by the old laws, the EPA administrator should ask his fellow Republicans for new ones.
Whenever Scott Pruitt, the new administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is pressed on his plans to dismantle the agency’s rules and regulations, he falls back on an easy excuse: The statute made me do it.
That’s what happened last weekend, when Pruitt Chris Wallace, the show’s longtime host, asked him how he would achieve the public-health benefits of the Clean Power Plan while the rule was out of force. According to the EPA, the Clean Power Plan would avert 90,000 asthma attacks and 3,600 premature last week.
