EPA chief Pruitt appeals to ‘civility’ but fails to quell environmentalists’ concerns

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http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MbP2YVFzix.DCHtTsBcoMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/c64b5cb7f4389f62434d604a4fc381da (https://www.yahoo.com/news/epa-chief-pruitt-appeals-to-civility-but-fails-to-quell-environmentalists-concerns-200922299.html)Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s first speech to employees of the EPA at midday on Tuesday did little to assuage the concerns of environmentalists over his ties to the fossil fuel industry. At the EPA’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., Pruitt called for civility and listening in his highly anticipated, tense inaugural address to the staff of an agency that he sued more than a dozen times as Oklahoma attorney general. President Trump’s decision to nominate Pruitt, who has made it clear he has no confidence in mainstream climate science, to lead the EPA immediately incited a backlash-from liberals and environmentalists.



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