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US EPA Head Scott Pruitt is Resigning

posted by mrpg on Monday July 09 2018, @03:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the good-bye-and-thanks-for-all-the-[dead]-fish? dept.

martyb writes:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/trump-tweet-epa-head-scott-pruitt-is-resigning/:

On Thursday, President Trump tweeted that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt had submitted his resignation.

Pruitt had been considered among the most loyal of Trump's appointees, but the former Oklahoma Attorney General made headlines over the past several months with repeated scandals over extravagant spending. Pruitt reportedly used agency funds to buy hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of tactical pants and other security-related items. He also used agency resources to help his wife find a job and even to help him purchase a used Trump hotel mattress. Questions about who Pruitt promoted and how raises were doled out also caused significant damage to Pruitt's public image. Thirteen different federal investigations had been opened up into the administrator's conduct.

Trump's tweet mentioned none of this Thursday afternoon, however. "I have accepted the resignation of Scott Pruitt as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency," the President tweeted. "Within the Agency Scott has done an outstanding job, and I will always be thankful to him for this. The Senate confirmed Deputy at EPA, Andrew Wheeler, will..."

A second tweet continued: "... on Monday assume duties as the acting Administrator of the EPA. I have no doubt that Andy will continue on with our great and lasting EPA agenda. We have made tremendous progress and the future of the EPA is very bright!"

Also at: The Scientist and CNBC.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday July 09 2018, @05:58AM (1 child)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday July 09 2018, @05:58AM (#704445) Journal

    Wow, that's not just a race to the bottom, that's putting on an Acme Rocket Pack turned the wrong way 'round and jumping off a cliff. Onto a bomb. Waving a cowboy hat and hollering. As was seen at the end of Dr. Strangelove. The worst part about you morons is that you're too fucking stupid and un-self-aware to even understand how badly you're fucking yourselves over with this. You won't survive what's coming, and it'll be your own goddamn fault.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 09 2018, @09:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 09 2018, @09:44AM (#704475)

    You won't survive what's coming, and it'll be your own goddamn fault for your own good.

    FTFY

    Problem is neither many of the others will survive.