Sen. Elizabeth Warren Slams Pruitt: 'Big Polluters Have Their Fantasy EPA Nominee'

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) denounced President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, just hours before the Senate was scheduled to vote on his approval. Warren spent nearly an hour on the floor Thursday evening to voice her “strong opposition” to Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general who has sued the EPA 13 times. The excoriation came hours after a state judge ordered Pruitt’s office to release more than 2,500 documents and emails about his communications with energy companies during his tenure. “I rise today to express my strong opposition to President Trump’s nomination of Scott Pruitt,” Warren said at the outset of her speech. “The reason is simple: In a choice between corporate polluters and people who want to breathe air and drink water, Scott Pruitt sides with the corporate polluters. He has no business as head of the EPA.” The Senate is scheduled to vote on Pruitt’s nomination Friday afternoon, just days before the documents and emails are made public. An incredulous Warren demanded senators be given access to the communications to make an informed decision on the nomination and called for a bipartisan effort to ensure “access to clean air and clean water [as] a basic right for all Americans.” “Their plan is to jam this nomination through tomorrow, four days before the emails are slated to become public. Are you kidding me?” she ask...
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