EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s first speech to employees of the Environmental Protection Agency midday Tuesday did little to assuage the concerns of environmentalists over his ties to the fossil fuel industry.
At the EPA’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., Pruitt called for civility and listening in his highly anticipated, tense inaugural address to the staff of an agency he sued more than a dozen times as Oklahoma attorney general.
“You don’t know me very well. In fact, you don’t know me hardly at other than what maybe you read in the newspaper or seen on the news,” he told the crowd.