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" Threats I have faced are unprecedented. "
Scott Pruitt
Unprecedented
Threats
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" Ozone is something that we most definitely have to regulate. It's a very important thing to regulate. "
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" The greatest threat we've had to economic growth has been that those in industry don't know what is expected of them. Rules come that are outside of statutes. Rules get changed midway. It creates vast uncertainty and paralysis, and re-establishing a vigorous commitment to rule of law is going to help a lot. "
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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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" Our roads and bridges form the essence of interstate commerce in this country and have for some time. "
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" As we do our work in D.C., we should do our work in collaboration and in partnership, in cohesion with states so that we can work on environmental issues from Superfund to air quality to water quality across the full spectrum in things that we do in partnership with those folks. "
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" Now having the honor of working for him, it is abundantly clear that President Trump is the most consequential leader of our time. "
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" I think executive orders with Donald Trump would be a very blunt instrument with respect to the Constitution. "
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" What the American people deserve, I think, is a true, legitimate, peer-reviewed, objective, transparent discussion about CO2. "
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" There are issues the EPA should be dealing with. When I talk about the EPA and its role with the states, it's not an abolitionist view, that we don't need that agency. It's that the agency should act within the outlines established by Congress. "
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" 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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" Safety and health of water is clearly a compelling government interest. "
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" Facts are facts, and fiction is fiction, and a lie doesn't become truth just because it appears on the front page of the newspaper. "
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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. "
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" I might not like a statute... but if you know what to expect, you can plan. The law is static. It's stable. It gives you confidence. You know you have to act a certain way. "
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" There simply is no greater threat to individual liberty and the viability of our great nation than the threat that comes from the continued consolidation of power in Washington, a consolidation that flies in the face of the division of power between the federal government and the states that is required by the Constitution. "
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" 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. "
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" My battles have been against federal actions that exceed the powers our Founders granted to the federal government in the constitution. "
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" We've made extraordinary progress on the environment over the decades, and that's something we should celebrate. "
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" There are air-quality issues that cross state lines. There are water-quality issues, obviously, that cross state lines. "
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" Our religious freedoms are under constant attack from a variety of groups who seek to undermine our constitutional rights and threaten our founding principles. "
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" We can be pro-growth, pro-jobs, and pro-environment. "
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" There is a reason to have an agency called the EPA, and it has served an historical purpose I believe is vital to this country. "
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" The last thing we need in Washington is more federal hubris. "
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" In our constitutional system, states are free to make decisions and bear the political consequences, good or bad, of those choices. "
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" Lead poisoning is an insidious menace that robs our citizens of their fullest potential. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" There aren't sufficient scientific facts to establish the theory of evolution, and it deals with the origins of man, which is more from a philosophical standpoint than a scientific standpoint. "
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