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" EPA can and should now focus on getting real results in the fight for clean air, land, and water. "

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" Thankfully, President Trump has made clear: The regulatory assault on American workers is over. "

" I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do, and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact. "

" This idea that if you're pro-environment you're anti-energy is just something we've got to change, so that attitude is something we're working on very much. "

" The EPA has performed a very important role for us all. "

" 'Sue and settle' involves the creation of environmental rules and regulations through lawsuits filed by environmental groups against the EPA, not through Congress or proper rule-making. "

" EPA's role is even broader than water infrastructure and cleaning up contaminated land - the agency also has a key role in allowing projects to move forward by reviewing environmental impact statements during the permitting process. "

" We've made extraordinary progress on the environment over the decades, and that's something we should celebrate. "

" When you look at farmers and ranchers, for example, they are our first environmentalists. They are our first conservationists. When you look at the greatest asset that they have, it is their land. They care about the water that they drink. They care about the air that they breathe. We should see them as partners, not adversaries. "

" The last thing we need in Washington is more federal hubris. "

" If the president is allowed to govern by executive action, then the rule of law greatly suffers. "

" What I've said about consent orders and consent decrees is that we shouldn't regulate through litigation. "

" Americans who want a healthy and clean environment expect lawful, effective, and economically sound regulation - the Clean Power Plan failed on all three counts. "

" The federal government should not be able to hide behind sovereign immunity when the facts don't meet the protections. "

" As Oklahoma attorney general, it is not my job to formulate or implement Oklahoma's plan, but it is my job to preserve Oklahoma's right to do so - particularly when the Clean Air Act so clearly recognizes that Oklahomans, and not federal bureaucrats, are best situated to determine Oklahoma energy and environmental policies. "

" It is no secret that Washington, D.C., is a tempest of people and institutions relentlessly seeking power over the lives of everyday Americans. "

" In our constitutional system, states are free to make decisions and bear the political consequences, good or bad, of those choices. "

" There are air-quality issues that cross state lines. There are water-quality issues, obviously, that cross state lines. "

" Agencies and the executive branch need to enforce the law. They don't need to fill in the spaces if Congress doesn't act. "

" What the American people deserve, I think, is a true, legitimate, peer-reviewed, objective, transparent discussion about CO2. "

" When I took office in 2011, I made a commitment that the Office of Attorney General would find ways to do more while spending fewer taxpayer dollars. "

" We are blessed with great national resources, and we should be good stewards of those. "

" What is true environmentalism? I think it's environmental stewardship - not prohibition. "

" Threats I have faced are unprecedented. "

" No one has done more to advance the rule of law than President Trump. "

" The Constitutional framework of checks and balances matters. "

Checks And Balances

" The 'environmental left' tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can feed the world, we should keep those things in the ground, put up fences, and be about prohibition. "

" Now having the honor of working for him, it is abundantly clear that President Trump is the most consequential leader of our time. "

" Few things are as sacred and as fundamental to Oklahomans as the constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise of religion. "

" It's unwise in business to have one client or two clients. It's unwise in electricity to have one source or two sources. "

" I believe that Donald Trump in the White House would be more abusive to the Constitution than Barack Obama, and that's saying a lot. "