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" We can be about jobs and growth and be good stewards of our environment. "
Scott Pruitt
Jobs
Environment
Good
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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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" The federal government should not be able to hide behind sovereign immunity when the facts don't meet the protections. "
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" '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. "
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" 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. "
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" Agencies exist to administer the law. "
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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 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. "
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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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" We've made extraordinary progress on the environment over the decades, and that's something we should celebrate. "
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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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" Conservatives deserve a consistent and thoughtful vision for the role of federal government in relationship to states. "
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Relationship
Role
" 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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Debate
Ideal
" We just need to make sure that we get somebody in there that respects the Constitution, respects the rule of law, that restores the proper balance between the states and federal government. I have great confidence Jeb Bush would do that. "
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Great
Government
Balance
" 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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Constitution
Power
Great
" No one has done more to advance the rule of law than President Trump. "
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Law
Done
Rule Of Law
" 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
" I've led a grand jury. "
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Jury
Led
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" When you declare a 'war on coal' from a regulatory perspective, the question has to be asked: where's that in the statute? Where did Congress empower the EPA to declare a war on coal? "
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You
" 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
" 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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Election
Government
Power
" There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency. "
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Environmental
Need
Protection
" 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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Growth
Help
" 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 across the country with respect to that entire portfolio of 1,336 or so sites. "
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Respect
Good
" 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 a country. We haven't had to choose. "
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" The Constitution forbids states from banning all religion from public spaces and from making churches the ghettos of religion where all manifestations of faith are kept separate from public life. Religious people have an equal right to participate in the public square and to have their contributions to Oklahoma history and society recognized. "
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Faith
Religion
Society
" 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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Role
Ebb
Why
" 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 happen to think the Paris accord, the Paris treaty, or the Paris Agreement, if you will, should have been treated as a treaty, should have gone through Senate confirmation. "
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Think
Agreement
Will
" We can be pro-growth, pro-jobs, and pro-environment. "
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Pro-Growth