Scott Pruitt
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.Collection: Environmental
EPA will set a national standard for greenhouse gas emissions that allows auto manufacturers to make cars that people both want and can afford - while still expanding environmental and safety benefits of newer cars.Collection: Environmental
As we do our work in D.C., we should do our work in collaboration and in partnership, in cohesion with states so that we can work on environmental issues from Superfund to air quality to water quality across the full spectrum in things that we do in partnership with those folks.Collection: Environmental
The 'environmental left' tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can feed the world, we should keep those things in the ground, put up fences, and be about prohibition.Collection: Environmental
Like the invention of the printing press before it, the Internet has been the greatest instrumentality of free speech and the exchange of ideas in the history of mankind.Collection: History
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.Collection: Environmental
There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency.Collection: Environmental
What is true environmentalism? I think it's environmental stewardship - not prohibition.Collection: Environmental
We, as a country, have always used innovative technology to advance environmental stewardship, reduction of those pollutants, but also grown our economy at the same time.Collection: Environmental
'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.Collection: Environmental
We're saying environmental stewardship and jobs in the economy. We can do both together.Collection: Environmental
Federalism is not one state dictating to the rest of the country what should occur in the area of CAFE.
Agencies and the executive branch need to enforce the law. They don't need to fill in the spaces if Congress doesn't act.
Lead poisoning is an insidious menace that robs our citizens of their fullest potential.
My job is to enforce the laws as passed by whom? Congress. They give me my authority. That's the jurisdictional responsibilities that I have, and when litigation is used to regulate... that's abusive. That's wrong.
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.
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.
The last thing we need in Washington is more federal hubris.
It is hubris that has gotten us into trouble in Washington. It is humility, principled leadership, and unwavering faith in the power of the states, the people, and our Constitution that will get us out.
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.
It is no secret that Washington, D.C., is a tempest of people and institutions relentlessly seeking power over the lives of everyday Americans.
We need a president willing to embrace the idea that Washington is not the answer to all, or even most, of our problems, regardless of who is in charge.
My battles have been against federal actions that exceed the powers our Founders granted to the federal government in the constitution.
Thankfully, President Trump has made clear: The regulatory assault on American workers is over.
We should not have to choose between supporting jobs and supporting the environment.
Americans who want a healthy and clean environment expect lawful, effective, and economically sound regulation - the Clean Power Plan failed on all three counts.
EPA can and should now focus on getting real results in the fight for clean air, land, and water.
In our constitutional system, states are free to make decisions and bear the political consequences, good or bad, of those choices.
As Oklahomans, we believe in bold entrepreneurship and good stewardship.
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.
Our roads and bridges form the essence of interstate commerce in this country and have for some time.
America's infrastructure was once the envy of the world.
There aren't sufficient scientific facts to establish the theory of evolution, and it deals with the origins of man, which is more from a philosophical standpoint than a scientific standpoint.
Our First Amendment should preserve the right of Hindus and Muslims to practice their faith.
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.
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?
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.
I think executive orders with Donald Trump would be a very blunt instrument with respect to the Constitution.
There is no reason why EPA's role should ebb and flow based on a particular administration or a particular administrator.
Agencies exist to administer the law.
Congress passes statutes, and those statutes are very clear on the job EPA has to do.
We are blessed with great national resources, and we should be good stewards of those.
Safety and health of water is clearly a compelling government interest.
The EPA has performed a very important role for us all.
There are air-quality issues that cross state lines. There are water-quality issues, obviously, that cross state lines.
There is a reason to have an agency called the EPA, and it has served an historical purpose I believe is vital to this country.
Few things are as sacred and as fundamental to Oklahomans as the constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise of religion.
Our religious freedoms are under constant attack from a variety of groups who seek to undermine our constitutional rights and threaten our founding principles.
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.
There are issues the EPA should be dealing with. When I talk about the EPA and its role with the states, it's not an abolitionist view, that we don't need that agency. It's that the agency should act within the outlines established by Congress.