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Five things we’ll miss about EPA chief Scott Pruitt

By The News Tribune Editorial Board
Whoa, Nelly, not even Scott Pruitt himself can come up with 10 reasons he’ll be missed as America’s pollution enabler in chief. Coming up with five is hard enough.
Whoa, Nelly, not even Scott Pruitt himself can come up with 10 reasons he’ll be missed as America’s pollution enabler in chief. Coming up with five is hard enough. Pablo Martinez Monsivais AP file photo, 2017

Five reasons we’ll miss Scott Pruitt, departing administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

1 His demands for a soundproof phone booth​ and bulletproof desk made the EPA seem as dangerously sexy as a James Bond movie.​

2 It takes an unusually sensitive Oklahoma man to use moisturizing lotion​, let alone order his security detail to pick up​ the good stuff at Ritz Carlton Hotels.​

3 ​He had Ron Swanson-esque chutzpah, a government hater bent on gutting it from inside. Tried to have his cake, eat it, too, then lick the beaters.

4 He was so bus​y with personal scandals, he didn’t get far deregulating​ his fossil fuel pals or letting our air and water be poisoned.​ The next guy could be worse.

5 Give the man credit, he was a survivor and somehow kept getting through the Trump tribal council. Now who’s left with torches aflame, Jeff Sessions and Jim Mattis?

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