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" We've made extraordinary progress on the environment over the decades, and that's something we should celebrate. "
Scott Pruitt
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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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" 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. "
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" Lead poisoning is an insidious menace that robs our citizens of their fullest potential. "
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" If you can tell me what gun, type of gun, I can possess, then I didn't really get that right to keep and bear arms from God. It was not bequeathed to me; it was not unalienable, right? "
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" The last thing we need in Washington is more federal hubris. "
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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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" The federal government must retreat from its hyperactive involvement in areas traditionally under states' authority and refuse future temptations to regulate and legislate on every issue that happens to come to mind. "
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" 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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" 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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" There are air-quality issues that cross state lines. There are water-quality issues, obviously, that cross state lines. "
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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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" Federalism is not one state dictating to the rest of the country what should occur in the area of CAFE. "
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" 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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" Thankfully, President Trump has made clear: The regulatory assault on American workers is over. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" We should not have to choose between supporting jobs and supporting the environment. "
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" 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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" I cut my teeth on religious liberty issues. "
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" If the president is allowed to govern by executive action, then the rule of law greatly suffers. "
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