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“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 have methodically, indeed relentlessly, worked to restore the proper balance of power between the federal government and the states.” quote by Scott Pruitt — Download Open image

“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 have methodically, indeed relentlessly, worked to restore the proper balance of power between the federal government and the states.”

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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…

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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…

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I don't hang with polluters; I prosecute them.

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When you look at farmers and ranchers, for example, they are our first environmentalists. They are our first conservationists. When you look at the…

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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…

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The Constitutional framework of checks and balances matters.

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I spent many hours in the batting cage. I remember many days when my hands were pretty cut up and bleeding.

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Lead poisoning is an insidious menace that robs our citizens of their fullest potential.

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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…

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This paradigm that says we have to choose industry over the environment or the environment over industry is the old way of thinking.

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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, that that necessarily is a bad thing. Do we really know what the ideal surface temperature should be in the year 2100, in the year 2018?

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