Fallin applauds Pruitt nomination to lead EPA

In fact, Mr. Pruitt’s statement “Scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of global warming and its connection to the actions of mankind”, clearly indicates that he strongly doubts the theory that fossil fuel leads to increase in earth’s temperature by emitting greenhouse gas.

Such comments come despite the overwhelming scientific consensus on human-influenced climate change.

The EPA chief also has a strong impact on USA actions to combat climate change: the agency both determines what global commitments the country is able to make, and implements the measures. Senator Bernie Sanders described the nomination as “sad and dangerous”.

As the EPA administrator, Pruitt would be the leader of these efforts and would serve as the face of the agency for the Trump administration.

Pruitt, who must be confirmed by the US Senate, is an ardent opponent of federal regulations to curb climate change and has questioned the science underlying global warming. And what will Scott Pruitt do as EPA head? Brian Schatz (D-HI) said on a Thursday call organized by the League of Conservation Voters, according to CNN.

This doesn’t effect Pruitt’s stance on the environment, but it’s worth taking a quick look at some of his other controversial views. Four years ago, Trump tweeted his belief that global warming is a hoax perpetrated by the China created to undermine US manufacturing.

CBS’s Nancy Cordes bemoaned Trump’s climate change switcheroo from earlier in the week.

“I had a lengthy and very productive session with the President-elect”, Gore said afterward. “It was a honest search for areas of common ground”. The bulk of the time was with the President-elect, Donald Trump. “I want to ensure that (Pruitt) is going to follow ongoing congressional intentions with (the) Renewable Fuel Standard”.

Pruitt has said publicly that climate science “is far from settled” and has sued the agency he is to head three different times to blunt or overturn its regulatory powers over his state’s fossil-fuel industries and electric utilities.

Pruitt, 48, has led a charge against the Obama administration’s climate change agenda and is part of a group of attorneys generals challenging the EPA’s Clean Power Plan.

Republicans have long argued that President Barack Obama’s administration, through the EPA, has imposed burdensome environmental regulations such as anti-pollution measures on U.S. corporations, many in the name of fighting climate change.

In September, Pruitt said he saw the Clean Power Plan as a form of federal “coercion and commandeering” of energy policy and said that his state should have “sovereignty to make decisions for its own markets”.