Why Scott Pruitt’s Critics Will Miss Him
His successor will likely be far too skilled to attract notice to the EPA.
Scott Pruitt is gone.
During his time in office, Pruitt racked up a fabulous array of “bizarre and venal” controversies—so many that it verges on cliché to list them all. (My favorite: Pruitt’s dispatching a government-salaried aide to buy a used Trump-hotel mattress for his own—that is, Pruitt’s—personal repose.)
His fall has delighted critics both of the Trump administration and of his own distinct brand of open corruption. Yet I suspect that many environmentalists and climate advocates will come to miss the
