Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt’s TIME 100 profile is very different from most featured on the website. Not only is it negative, it was written by a vocal critic.
Pruitt’s profile was written by former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman. Whitman wrote that “under the administration of Scott Pruitt, the agency is experiencing a new wave of policymaking—or rather, policy dismantling.”
“If his actions continue in the same direction, during Pruitt’s term at the EPA the environment will be threatened instead of protected, and human health endangered instead of preserved, all with no long-term benefit to the economy,” Whitman wrote.
Whitman served as EPA administrator in the Bush administration and as New Jersey’s governor before that. She’s a vocal opponent of the Trump administration and even endorsed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
Whitman opposed Pruitt’s nomination to head the EPA back in late 2016, chiding his “seeming disdain for the people at the agency, for science.”
“He is very definitely a denier of climate change, something that scientists, by and large, overwhelmingly, say is occurring and that humans have a role to play in that,” Whitman told NPR in December 2016.
“He also seems to be someone who doesn’t believe in regulation. And that’s a time where you want to say regulations are prevention. They’re trying to protect us,” she said.
Whitman made similar remarks in an interview with TIME given a few weeks later, saying she was “nervous” about Pruitt taking the reins at EPA.
What made Pruitt’s TIME 100 profile interesting is that other prominent Republicans, including President Donald Trump himself, had theirs written by friends or allies. Pruitt’s was written by a vocal critic.
For example, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz wrote Trump’s TIME 100 profile, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wrote Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ profile. Fox News host Sean Hannity’s profile was written by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a regular guest on his show.
On the other side of the aisle, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards wrote a glowing TIME 100 profile for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat.
Richards wrote that Pelosi is “a voice for the people who are counting on government to be there for them.” Planned Parenthood has donated to Pelosi’s congressional campaigns.
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Steve Hilton a Fox News democrat launched an attack on Scott Pruitt as only a CNN reporter could . One side , un fact checked , and revealing his California liberal roots. Hilton bailed on his last country only to move to the USA and tinkle his mile wide quarter inch vision . Can a CNN , ABC , or NBC job be far off ?
Hilton’s garbage editorial sounds like it came right out of Tom Steyer election campaign book .
Mr. Pruitt is unraveling a lobbyist infiltrated EPA
with currently cloaked operatives that will go any length to
hang on to a bloated corrupt EPA .
Steve Hilton has bought their story without acknowledging
the materiality or other side of the allegations . Steve Hilton
suggests firing Mr . Pruitt as a drain the swamp step to send a message . Yeah that’s the objective all right Stevie boy .
Is there any doubt the same people who had Seth Rich murdered wouldn’t do the same thing to Scott Pruitt given half a chance ?
A relevant question might be why is Mr . Pruitt even flying
on a commercial flight after the death threats he is subject to .
The rent issue is a joke . Anyone care to check into all the members of Congress living arrangements and the lobbyists they
party with ? At least Steve Hilton has come out of his democrat
closet and will never be looked at the same way .
Mr. Pruitt is very pro environment just not pro eco -anarchist .
Draining a multi $billion EPA swamp is going to create huge undertow and the attacks on Mr .Pruitt are the best possible sign he is winning .
I will take the $ billion in savings and massive reduction in waste despite the righteous indignation from the mouse crap servers like Steve Hilton ,the ” fire Scott Pruitt ” lobbyists and EPA traitors .
Maybe Fox has already fired Hilton . I hope so.
Small wonder she hates him . He just ended people like her ‘s lunch .
Whitman is a typical bureaucrat that never met a regulation that she didn’t like. She’s President of The Whitman Strategy Group (WSG), a consulting firm that specializes in energy and environmental issue–helping business, governments and others to meet enviro-regs. Small wonder she cares little for Pruitt; he’s chopping regs every day. Funny that these swamp rats push the regs then leave their positions of power and consult organizations on how to comply charging hefty fees–what a racket!!!!
I’ve dealt with a similar character here in Ontario. He helped build a program called NASM, non-agriculture source material. He took his government pension and now owns a consulting firm that offers compliance services.
Anything written in that liberal rag TIME is 1% News 99% B.S. this liberal rag was going on about Global Cooling and New Ice Age back in the 1970’s
Tired of these sanctimonious eco anarchists pretending they are the only ones who care about the environment . Scott Pruitt and his team are continuing to do a brilliant job and the left wing , big government bitches can’t stand it .
The USA is starting to walk tall again and although not American
I think it is absolutely fantastic .
Pruitt is streamlining the regs.
Obummer had numerous unnecessary and extremely costly regs, which were designed to kill the US economy as per Agenda 21.
Whitman is totally misinforming the public and should be removed along with the other swamp creatures. IMO.
Sorry . Whitman is already out of the swamp but won’t shut up
So Pruitt doesn’t believe in anthropological climate change and doesn’t believe is regulations. We definitely have the right man for the job.
Whitman says that Pruitt will harm the environment. Yet, under Obama the EPA was so focused on climate change that real environmental issues were ignored.
Whitman says that Pruitt’s actions will not benefit the economy. Under Obama’s seven years only Texas had a net gain in jobs. I don’t have the data for all eight years. With countries that have taken action on climate change complaining about job loss, Pruitt’s actions are clearly the best way to go.