There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency. — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
There is no reason why EPA's role should ebb and flow based on a particular administration or a particular administrator. — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
The climate is changing. That's not the debate. The debate is how do we know what the ideal surface temperature is in 2100? — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
We should not have to choose between supporting jobs and supporting the environment. — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
EPA can and should now focus on getting real results in the fight for clean air, land, and water. — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
The climate is changing, and human activity contributes to that in some manner. — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
This paradigm that says we have to choose industry over the environment or the environment over industry is the old way of… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
What is true environmentalism? I think it's environmental stewardship - not prohibition. — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
We need fuel diversity as far as the generation of electricity because you can only get so much natural gas through the… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
For someone to say that someone's a skeptic or a climate denier about the climate changing, that's just nonsensical. We see that… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
I believe the ability to measure, with precision, the degree of human activity's impact on the climate is subject to more debate… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
This notion that we cannot be about jobs and stewardship of the environment is just simply not right. We've always done that… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
Think about how tangible it would be to the citizens of Washington State to finally have the Hanford nuclear site cleaned up.… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
There are issues the EPA should be dealing with. When I talk about the EPA and its role with the states, it's… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
When you declare a 'war on coal' from a regulatory perspective, the question has to be asked: where's that in the statute?… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
We know humans have most flourished during times of what? Warming trends. So I think there's assumptions made that because the climate… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
The 'environmental left' tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
As Oklahoma attorney general, it is not my job to formulate or implement Oklahoma's plan, but it is my job to preserve… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
There are very important questions around the climate issue that folks really don't get to. And that's one of the reasons why… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
Our battles against the EPA and other rogue federal agencies aren't about a desire for dirtier air or zero regulation. They are… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
Ozone is something that we most definitely have to regulate. It's a very important thing to regulate. — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do, and there's tremendous disagreement about… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
Americans who want a healthy and clean environment expect lawful, effective, and economically sound regulation - the Clean Power Plan failed on… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
As we do our work in D.C., we should do our work in collaboration and in partnership, in cohesion with states so… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
EPA's role is even broader than water infrastructure and cleaning up contaminated land - the agency also has a key role in… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
I happen to think the Paris accord, the Paris treaty, or the Paris Agreement, if you will, should have been treated as… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
We, as a country, have always used innovative technology to advance environmental stewardship, reduction of those pollutants, but also grown our economy… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
We're a small state. Our quantity of representation in Washington is not as large as a Texas, an Ohio, or a New York. So… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share
Most lawsuits against the EPA historically have come either because of the agency's lack of regard for a statute or because the EPA failed… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share
Since my election as Oklahoma attorney general in 2010, I have been a proud member of a group of federalism-minded state attorneys general who… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share
When you look at farmers and ranchers, for example, they are our first environmentalists. They are our first conservationists. When you look at the… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share
This notion that we cannot be about jobs and stewardship of the environment is just simply not right. We've always done that well as… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share
I'm going to have a very thoughtful and meaningful enforcement response to Superfund to make sure that we are achieving good outcomes for citizens… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share
I spent many hours in the batting cage. I remember many days when my hands were pretty cut up and bleeding. — Scott Pruitt Copy Share
Lead poisoning is an insidious menace that robs our citizens of their fullest potential. — Scott Pruitt Copy Share
I spent a couple years just earnestly praying, asking the question that I don't think we ask enough: 'God what do you want to… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share
This paradigm that says we have to choose industry over the environment or the environment over industry is the old way of thinking. — Scott Pruitt Copy Share
We know humans have most flourished during times of what? Warming trends. So I think there's assumptions made that because the climate is warming,… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share
What the American people deserve, I think, is a true, legitimate, peer-reviewed, objective, transparent discussion about CO2. — Scott Pruitt Copy Share
Now having the honor of working for him, it is abundantly clear that President Trump is the most consequential leader of our time. — Scott Pruitt Copy Share
