Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Part of Scott Pruitt’s legacy is how he changed the jobs of conservation groups

Scott Pruitt is out as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, but his legacy remains. Pruitt’s scandal-plagued leadership has not only weakened environmental protections, but it changed the roles of conservation groups, which are reprioritizing and spending more time in court to fight for clean air and water.

From the beginning, it was clear that Pruitt was no friend of the environment. He encouraged the president to repeal the Paris accords, proposed lowering vehicle emissions standards for cars and trucks, and doubted the consensus claims that human actions are causing global warming. “We are now in our 126th year, and we have never seen anything like this,” says Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club. The...

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