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EPA’s Pruitt is doing a bad job

EPA’s Pruitt is doing a bad job

To the Editor:

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is in violation of his oath of office. Our members of Congress are charged with oversight of this agency.

The Environmental Protection Agency, created by President Nixon’s Reorganization Plan No. 3 in 1970, is tasked with protecting the environment, the health of which is directly related to the health of all Americans. 

Under this GOP administration, the EPA is reducing staff and enabling polluters rather than regulating them, by allowing greater land, water, and air pollution. Not enforcing climate-related regulations, while firing bona-fide scientists and replacing them with industry shills, as well as drastically slowing down work at the agency, is calculated to reward those who profit from polluting.

Our congressmen and senators must perform their duty under their oath of office. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is a clear and present danger to America’s health. His ethical transgressions are obvious and egregious, but his regulatory actions will lead to real damage to Americans every day. Please tell your representatives to act as though their constituents are their first concern. They have an obligation to not allow this to go unchecked and unbalanced.

Bil Aylor

Bryson City

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