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“When an American government takes on characteristics that elevate the state above the individual, it must be vigorously opposed as a form of, or step toward, tyranny.”

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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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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…

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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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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…

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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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