February 2, 2017
Washington, DC- In response to Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee forcing a vote on Scott Pruitt’s confirmation as Environmental Protection Agency Administrator despite a boycott from Democrats on the committee, Greenpeace USA Executive Director Annie Leonard said:
“Each vote from a Senate Republican today in favor of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as head of the EPA was a vote for poisoned air, polluted water, and an unstable climate. While reassuring to see many Senators resist Pruitt’s confirmation, the lawmakers who swung open the doors for the fossil fuel takeover of environmental protection should be ashamed of themselves. When the next Flint, Michigan crisis happens in the districts of these representatives, they will have themselves to blame. The powerful movement that has risen to stop the worst of the Trump administration, including the nomination of Pruitt, will only grow stronger as we fight to protect what is right.”
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