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Raw Story reports:
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt faced a grilling from Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday over his climate change denials and plans to do away with scores of environmental regulations. “You think that rewriting and, in fact, doing away with the clean power plan is going to improve air quality, which you say is a major goal?” Wallace asked Pruitt on Fox News Sunday.
According to the EPA head, President Barack Obama had put clean power regulations in place “through executive fiat” and President Donald Trump has vowed to return to the “rule of law.” Wallace pointed out that the Trump administration’s deregulation of the environment meant that China was now pushing the U.S. to decrease greenhouse gas emissions instead of the other way around. “We have nothing to be apologetic about with respect to the leadership we’ve show as a country,” Pruitt insisted.
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After Chris Wallace grilled Pruitt on his previous comments denying climate change, the Fox News Sunday host observed that the administration’s proposed 31-percent cuts to the EPA, “including Great Lakes restoration, water runoff control for farmers, and pesticide safety,” are the largest planned cuts to any agency.
“What does that say about this commitment of this administration — and you — to cleaning up environment, when you’re making a 31 percent cut in your agency and things like water runoff for farmers?”
Pruitt responded that there has been “a lack of commitment to state partnership” in recent years. “We have state departments of environmental quality that have the resources and the expertise to deal with clean water and clean air issues,” he responded, suggesting that cash-strapped state governments could simply take over federal duties.