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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. "
Scott Pruitt
Way
Old
Environment
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" Threats I have faced are unprecedented. "
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" 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. "
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" For someone to say that someone's a skeptic or a climate denier about the climate changing, that's just nonsensical. We see that throughout history. We impact the climate by our activity. How much so is very difficult to determine with respect to our CO2 or carbon footprint, but we obviously do. "
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" I cut my teeth on religious liberty issues. "
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Religious
Issues
" The climate is changing. That's not the debate. The debate is how do we know what the ideal surface temperature is in 2100? "
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Surface
Debate
Ideal
" Think about how tangible it would be to the citizens of Washington State to finally have the Hanford nuclear site cleaned up. Think about how tangible it would be to the citizens along the Hudson River to fix that pollution. These are some of the most direct things we can do to benefit our environment. "
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" We can be pro-growth, pro-jobs, and pro-environment. "
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" There is no reason why EPA's role should ebb and flow based on a particular administration or a particular administrator. "
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Why
" 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 do with me?' Really getting into our prayer closet, seeking His heart, asking what He wants to do in our lives. "
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Think
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" The federal government should not be able to hide behind sovereign immunity when the facts don't meet the protections. "
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Meet
Behind
Facts
" It is no secret that Washington, D.C., is a tempest of people and institutions relentlessly seeking power over the lives of everyday Americans. "
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People
Everyday
Washington
" What the American people deserve, I think, is a true, legitimate, peer-reviewed, objective, transparent discussion about CO2. "
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People
Think
True
" I think executive orders with Donald Trump would be a very blunt instrument with respect to the Constitution. "
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Think
Respect
Constitution
" Americans who want a healthy and clean environment expect lawful, effective, and economically sound regulation - the Clean Power Plan failed on all three counts. "
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Environment
Three
Power
" I think that the more we, as a state, yield and cede decisions to the federal government, the lesser we'll be for it as a state. "
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Government
Think
More
" I think the most grievous threat that we have today is this imperialistic judiciary, this judicial monarchy that has it wrong on what the First Amendment's about and has an objective to create religious sterility in the public square, which is wholly inconsistent with the Founding Fathers' view. "
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Judiciary
View
Today
" 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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Step
Government
American
" 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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Bad
Assumptions
Trends
" I don't hang with polluters; I prosecute them. "
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Hang
" There are air-quality issues that cross state lines. There are water-quality issues, obviously, that cross state lines. "
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State
Lines
" 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. "
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Office
Find
" I am a firm believer that federal agencies exist to administer laws passed by Congress, as intended. "
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Laws
Exist
" EPA will set a national standard for greenhouse gas emissions that allows auto manufacturers to make cars that people both want and can afford - while still expanding environmental and safety benefits of newer cars. "
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Gas
Environmental
People
" Federalism is not one state dictating to the rest of the country what should occur in the area of CAFE. "
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Federalism
Should
Cafe
" There are very important questions around the climate issue that folks really don't get to. And that's one of the reasons why I've talked about having an honest, open, transparent debate about what do we know, what don't we know, so the American people can be informed and they can make decisions on their own with respect to these issues. "
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Respect
American
Decisions
" Safety and health of water is clearly a compelling government interest. "
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Government
Health
Safety
" If the president is allowed to govern by executive action, then the rule of law greatly suffers. "
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Rule Of Law
President
Law
" The biblical world view with respect to these issues is that we have a responsibility to manage and cultivate, harvest the natural resources that we've been blessed with to truly bless our fellow mankind. "
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Responsibility
Respect
Blessed
" Agencies and the executive branch need to enforce the law. They don't need to fill in the spaces if Congress doesn't act. "
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Need
Branch
Act