Environmental groups decry reluctance of Pruitt’s regional EPA chiefs to go after polluters

Great Lakes regional chief helped gut environmental agency in Wisconsin.

Finding officials who would embrace the Trump administration’s anti-regulation agenda was clearly a priority for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt when he was filling the top spots in the agency’s regional offices.

Two of Pruitt’s regional administrators acquired reputations for cutting back on enforcement actions against polluters when they held the title of top environmental authority at the state level. Pruitt’s aversion to acknowledging mainstream scientific consensus on climate change also trickled down to his appointees at the regional level...

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Ken Notes: We will see a stalemate after the midterm elections, but we need to come to the table now to prevent rules and actions that will be difficult to turn back in the future. The yin yang approach is not working...